…a stokrát třásti stromem

Oldřich Kutra

The author’s debut, written by a poet who left the Slovácko region for Opava in Silesia. The final echoes of Moravian dialect in these poems almost disappear beneath the weight of neighbouring Catholic Poland and the stony massifs of the Jeseníky Mountains.

Cardiac output is the basic metric of blood flow performance – it describes the volume of blood being pumped by the heart, in particular by the left or right ventricle, per unit time. The figurative sense is needless to explain. It can only be added that the time unit is one human life.

The Cardiac Output series published fourteen titles of contemporary Czech poetry in collaboration with Masaryk University Press by the end of 2013. Vladimír Šrámek served as editor, and Leoš Knotek was responsible for the layout design. A number of poets, mainly based in Brno, were involved in the editorial work. In 2013, Cardiac Output was transformed into a voluntary group with the aim of reviving publishing activities as well as other cultural initiatives.