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Ondra Lysohorsky's first volume of poetry - written in his native Lachian idiom, half way between Czech and Polish - burst upon the Czechoslovakian literary scene in 1934 and very soon his name was a household word. Today, as a result of an official policy of hostility and discrimination - carried to the lengths of keeping his name out of reference works and removing his poems from pre-war anthologies - he is virtually unknown to a whole generation of poetry readers in Czechoslovakia.Yet Lysohorsky, the victim of erratic political persecution since 1934, has continued to write poetry, both in Lachian and in German. Four volumes of translation into Russian have been followed by two into French and one into German. In recent years, his poems have appeared increasingly in periodicals throughout the world. The present volume is the first publication in book form of his poetry in English translation.