Paris Notebook

Poems of love and passion from a vital figure in contemporary Czech poetry. Tereza Riedlbauchová’s poems explore the thresholds of bodies and the boundaries between the physical world and the imagination. The desire to cross these borders and merge with another being animates every page of Paris Notebook; her deceptively spontaneous poems evoke moments of physical and emotional intercourse while seamlessly shifting perspective and setting. Grounded in the great cities of Europe, yet universal in their emotional scope, the poems that make up Paris Notebook are central to the work of one of the Czech Republic’s major contemporary poets. This is a bilingual edition with expert English translations by Prague-based American poet, Stephan Delbos.