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with a world seemingly familiar, and yet surprising in its reality. Casual situations are the source of a subtle tension and deep, though at first glance hardly noticeable meaning. He said in an interview: "I think that real grace and gracefulness appear only where all the gloominess, depression, and weariness of life, all the 'loneliness of the relationship' are somehow present as well. Only in the midst of that can a thin thread of light shine, a thin thread, which however contains all the fateful nearness that two people are capable of."
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Petr Hruška says: "Poetry is not a decoration of life". According to him, poetry must "excite, disturb, amaze, surprise, unsettle the reader, demolish the existing aesthetic satisfactions and create new ones." Described as a poet of unrest and hidden dangers in everyday life, he confronts readers
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brother Pavel is a literary critic. Petr Hruška lives with his partner Yvetta
Ellerová (a singer and composer in the groups Norská trojka, and Complotto) and their three children in Ostrava. His son František is also a poet who published his debut book,
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628:(Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA 2008, ed. Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer), tr. by Zuzana Gabrišová
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420:(Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh 2023), tr. by Jonathan Bolton
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549:(Host, Brno 2016), eds. Vít Slíva and Jakub Chrobák
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598:(Den Haag, Netherlands 2004), tr. by Jana Beranová
365:(Artikulacije, Koprivnica 2018), tr. Matija Ivačić
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541:Co zůstává – malá antologie soudobé české poezie
527:(Host, Brno 2012), ed. Simona Martínková-Racková
590:Wo wir zu Hause das Salz haben – Nachdichtungen
461:(Brno 2004), ed. Ivan Petlan and Tomáš Lotocki
347:(Jelenkor, Budapest 2016), tr. by István Vörös
485:(Literula, Praha 2006), ed. Vladimír Křivánek
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