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He was a professional translator, covering fields such as science and economics. In terms of his literary translations, his contributions of
English language poetry and Pound studies into Czech are major. He also translated mystery novels, and non-fiction on the atrocities of fascism. He is known for
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Olomouc; he left the university, mostly for political reasons. Instead, he became the night watchman of the theatre in
Olomouc-Hodolany, where he read deeply and also wrote and translated, and finished studies in library science, eventually becoming a librarian. He converted to Catholicism in 1972,
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Stephen Watts, with whom he became friends, translating their verse in Czech. After leaving Votobia in 1998, he co-founded the publishing house Periplum, which specialised in poetry, philosophy and political science. In addition to English, he also translated from Slovak, Polish, and
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University of Maine in Orono, where he involved himself more deeply in Ezra Pound scholarship and gathered material for his anthology of New England poets, meeting many of the poets personally. He became good friends especially with
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He was married three times: to photographer Milena Valušková, sister of his friend and fellow poet
Rostislav Valušek; to translator Iveta Mikešová, with whom he had two children, Jan and Tereza; and to the novelist and editor Alena
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which had a profound influence on his poetic work. In the 1980s he translated textbooks for Palacký University, and was the Czech correspondent for
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his “quiet, thoughtful poetry”, which could probably be best described as minimalist – his translation of Basil
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at the
University of Iowa in Ames. There he befriended the American poet Kerry Shawn Keys and met Czech poet in exile
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Up the Devil's Back/Po hřbetě ďábla. A Bilingual
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