Jaroslava Hercíková: Dresses

It is very difficult to characterise either the poetry collection Šaty s píčou (Dresses with a Twat) or its author. Those who attend Jaroslava Hercíková’s reading will experience a remorseless poetic maze of the soul bearing traces of absurdity, hopelessness, anger and black humour. Some might call it underground. But when they start to drown in depression and mental sludge they will, just in time, get the chance to breathe and, unharmed, reach passages seamlessly infused with cheerfulness and playfulness, even… a tribute to life.