Poetry
Four Poems by Jaroslav Seifert
Autobiography
An Umbrella from Piccadilly
Fragment of a Letter
To Be a Poet
All poems from The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert
Translated from the Czech by Ewald Osers
Edited by George Gibian
Copyright © 1998 by Ewald Osers and George Gibian
Used by permission of Catbird Press
All rights reserved
Poem selected by Carola Hermelin, assistant head
librarian,
Nobel Library of the Swedish Academy.
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