Miloslav Topinka

Miloslav Topinka (July 4, 1945, Nový Etynk near Jindřichův Hradec) is a Czech poet.

After his return to Czechoslovakia he worked among other professions as a translator and editor of authors such as Rimbaud, Gilbert-Lecomte, Věra Linhartová, Kolář, Petr Kabeš etc.

Topinka's main themes are what he calls "the crack" - in other words, how to break from one's hidespot through to "4th dimension" [1] - something that e. g. Marcel Duchamp or Paul Celan (Light-Compulsion, 1970) wrote about as well; and "silence" (one of his interviews is called "Anyone who ever thought about poetry, must ask oneself 'Why did Rimbaud stop writing?'"

In his most celebrated book, The Crack, he uses many experimental techniques, such as transparent paper, holes in pages etc.

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