Background
Holub, Miroslav was born on September 13, 1923 in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. Son of Josef and Frantiska (Dvorakova) Holub.
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Miroslav Holub was hailed as a major figure in East European literature and praised for a sensibility, permeated by scientific thought, that bridged dangerous gaps and specious divisions in human knowledge. This collection's ten-page title poem, Holub's longest, is among the major long poems of the second half-century. The theater pieces and the puppet sequence, filtering social and psychological issues through the lens of playhouse and fairytale, are brilliant literary experiments. This volume, appearing here for the first time in any language, marked a milestone in the development of one of the great European masters. Miroslav Holub (1923-98) was one of Czechoslovakia's most original and prolific poets, and also a world-famous immunologist with more than 150 published scientific papers to his credit.
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Vanishing Lung Syndrome confirms Holub’s special status as one of Europe’s leading poets and as a rare mediator between scientific and literary modes of discourse. This book is darkly witty and mordantly accurate; it documents, among other things, the ignorance, folly and brutality abroad in our world. But it also brims with tenderness, humor, and occasional gleams of hope.
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(Miroslav Holub is an internationally renowned immunologis...)
Miroslav Holub is an internationally renowned immunologist who is also a celebrated poet. His poems are meticulously crafted, written in delicate, lean lines, as spare and fine as the inner workings of a watch. The autor of fifteen books of poetry, five books of essays, and hundreds of scientific papers, Holub travels throughtout the world as both scientist and poet, but he makes his home in Prague, Czechoslovakia"" - Literary Cavalcade. ""The book offers poems interspersed with prose reminiscences of growing up in a particular place at a particular time....Most of these short sketches take locations, people, or activities from Holub's youth and find in their recollection more universal truths"" - Rain Taxi. ""Grounded in razor-sharp observation, deep learning, common sense and charm, Supposed to Fly may be the most important work of antiromanticism since Auden's `The Sea and the Mirror.' Few poets in the English language could read it without a shamed face"" - Times literary Supplement.
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Better known as Czechoslovakia's finest poet, Miroslav Holub is also a superb prose stylist. The fifty-five `essaylets'...each forty-three lines in length, first appeared in the magazine Vim. Adhering to the magazine's strictures on length, Holub invented a new genre that imposes additional limits on the arts limits that are spatial, social, political, and spiritual...[The essaylets] touch upon every aspect of man's search for morality in a hostile world and are as poignant and probing as his poetry."" - World Literature Today. ""Holub is actually well known as a scientist, too, and it is this, along with his awareness of the political realities around him, that save his work from being the sort of studied vapidity that emasculates so much Western verse."" - Booklist.
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A collection of essays from Miroslav Holub, the Czech immunologist and poet. In one essay, the wanton assassination of a musk rat provokes a meticulous meditation on the nature of survival that manages to be both a lucid scientific exposition and a concealed allegory on Central European politics.
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(Miroslav Holub is an internationally renowned immunologis...)
Miroslav Holub is an internationally renowned immunologist who is also a celebrated poet. His poems are meticulously crafted, written in delicate, lean lines, as spare and fine as the inner workings of a watch. The autor of fifteen books of poetry, five books of essays, and hundreds of scientific papers, Holub travels throughtout the world as both scientist and poet, but he makes his home in Prague, Czechoslovakia"" - Literary Cavalcade. ""The book offers poems interspersed with prose reminiscences of growing up in a particular place at a particular time....Most of these short sketches take locations, people, or activities from Holub's youth and find in their recollection more universal truths"" - Rain Taxi. ""Grounded in razor-sharp observation, deep learning, common sense and charm, Supposed to Fly may be the most important work of antiromanticism since Auden's `The Sea and the Mirror.' Few poets in the English language could read it without a shamed face"" - Times literary Supplement.
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(From the microscopic to the mundane, Miroslav Holub's fir...)
From the microscopic to the mundane, Miroslav Holub's first collection of observations is a delight for thoughtful readers. Holub's dry wit and scientific acumen focus on the intersection of the scientific world with everyday life, finding bemused delight in the mysteries of the universe and the often surreal details of life and politics in Prague.
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(Immunology of Nude Mice presents a discussion of the natu...)
Immunology of Nude Mice presents a discussion of the nature of this viable laboratory mutant. This new volume updates all immunological information contained in the sparse literature concerning nude mice. It comprehensively explores some of the fre-quent questions associated with nude mice, such as if the mutant is really athymic or if the thymic defect causes all of the other deviations from brain to gonads. The practical consequences of hairlessness of the mutant are also consid-ered. Illustrated with original photographs and tables doc-umenting novel facts in immunology and physiology of nude mice, this publication is valuable for investigators and stu-dents entering the field.
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(Shedding Life: Disease, Politics, and Other Human Conditi...)
Shedding Life: Disease, Politics, and Other Human Conditions by Holub, Miroslav (1997) Hardcover [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 1600] Holub, Miroslav ... B00ZLVT5AO
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A collection of poems whose topics range from the nightmare paintings of Bosch and Breughel to the findings of modern science, on which subject Holub is a specialist in the field of immunology. He also wrote "`The Dimension of the Present Moment' and Other Essays" and "Vanishing Lung Syndrome".
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Holub, Miroslav was born on September 13, 1923 in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. Son of Josef and Frantiska (Dvorakova) Holub.
Doctor of Medicine, Charles University, Czechoslovakia, 1953. Doctor (honorary), Charles University, Czechoslovakia, 1985. Doctor of Science, Charles University, Czechoslovakia, 1991.
Science worker Microbiol. Institute Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, 1953-1971 and from 95. With Public Health Research Institute, New York City, 1965-1967, Max-Planck Institute Immunobiology, Freiburg, 1968-1969, Institute Clinical and Experimental Medicine, 1972-1994.
(Miroslav Holub was hailed as a major figure in East Europ...)
(A collection of poems whose topics range from the nightma...)
(Vanishing Lung Syndrome confirms Holub’s special status a...)
(Shedding Life: Disease, Politics, and Other Human Conditi...)
(From the microscopic to the mundane, Miroslav Holub's fir...)
(A collection of poems from Czech poet Holub, half from be...)
(Immunology of Nude Mice presents a discussion of the natu...)
(Better known as Czechoslovakia's finest poet, Miroslav Ho...)
(Miroslav Holub is an internationally renowned immunologis...)
(Miroslav Holub is an internationally renowned immunologis...)
(A collection of essays from Miroslav Holub, the Czech imm...)
(Book by Holub, Miroslav)
(1997 279 pages. Hard bound with very good dust jacket, ve...)
Author: (poetry) Day Shift 1958, Archilles and the Tortoise, 1960, 63, The Primer, 1961, 65, Go and Open the Door, 1961, Entirely Unsystematic Zoology, 1963, Where Blood Flows, 1963, So-called Heart, 1963, Anamnesis (selected poems, 1958-1963), 1964, Selected Poems, 1967, Obwohl, 1969, Although, 1969, Concrete, 1970, Model of a Man, 1969, Events, 1971, Aktschlüsse, 1974, Een Machine Van Woorden, 1975, Vantunum Mool, 1976, Notes of a Clay Pigeon, 1977, Epilógé apo to argo tou, 1979, Sagittal Section, 1980, On the Contrary, 1982, Interferon or On Theater, 1982, The Fly, 1987, Vanishing Lung Syndrome, 1990, Poems Before and After (collected English translations), 1990, Poemas, 1990, Vom Ursprung der Dinge, 1991, Hoewel, 1992, Supposed to Fly, 1994, Den forsvinnande lungas syndrom, 1994, Intensive Care, 1996, The Rampage, 1997, Syndrom, 1995, (prose) Angel on Wheels, 1963, Three Steps on the Ground, 1965, Die explodierende Metropole, 1967, To Live in New York, 1969, Poe or The Valley of Unrest, 1971, The Principle of a Jingle Bell, 1987, Maxwell's Demon or On Creativity, 1988, The Dimension of the Present Moment, 1990, The Hidden Hate of the Era, 1991, On the Causes of Damage and Destruction of Human Bodies, 1992, Supposed to Fly, 1996, Shedding Life, 1997, (science works) Experimental Morphology of Antibody Formation, 1958, Mechanisms of Antibody Formation, 1960. Editor: The Lymphocyte and the Immune Response, 1967, Zelluläre Grundlagen der Antikörperbildung, 1978, Structure of the Immune System, 1979, Immunology of Nude Mice, 1989.
Member Union Czechoslovak Writers (central committee 1963-1969), Union Czech Science Workers (central committee 1969-1971), Bavarian Academy Arts, New York Academy of Sciences, International Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, European Culture Club, Pangea (president), British Poetry Society.
Married 1st V^ra Koktova in 1948, 2nd Marta Svikruhova, 3rd Jitka Langrova in 1969.