Michal Habaj - Caput Mortuum

"Michal Habaj... is one of the most versatile and original figures of contemporary Slovak poetry."
Zoltán Németh

Michal Habaj (1974, Bratislava), poet, literary historian, author of several volumes of poems. His poems can be read in most European languages, quite a few foreign anthologies contain his poems; in Hungarian, see Footpaths to the Heights (2016) and It's Wonderful to be a Slovak... (2016). in volumes. His work Caput Mortuum is his first independent volume published in Hungarian translation. Habaj "perfectly combines public life with the magical power of poetry." "...the Caput Mortuum... is a world built from exciting linguistic and cultural inventions, discoveries, fragments..., which burns under the spell of the end times. The musicality of the poems is fueled sometimes by proclamations and sometimes by the heat of Old Testament prophecies "The Habaj texts its masterful composition and the bold expression of the lyrical self can be a serious surprise even for readers who do not really like contemporary poetry.