JANA PÁCALOVÁ

(Slovakia), born in 1979. She graduated in Slovak Language and Literature. She received her PhD at the Institute of Slovak Literature at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, where she works as a researcher. She focuses on fairy tales in the period of Romanticism. In 2003, she published a  collection of poetry Citová výchova (Emotional Education), which received the Ivan Krasko Debut Prize.



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at the bottom of a cup
there is total eclipse of the day
you keep telling your fortunes
the absurdity of cognition

the coffee is instant

Translated by Martina Kurtyová