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Martin
Reiner
is the author of five books of poems and a novel, as well as critical
essays and literary theory. Born in Brno, Czech Republic, in 1964,
he attended military academies and was imprisoned for eight months before
re-entering civilian life, working primarily in the arts
since the 1989 revolution. Since 1992, he has been the publisher of Petrov,
one of Czech Republic's premier literary publishing
houses. Recent books include Staré a jiné časy (Host, 2002)
and Pohled z kavárny v Bath (Vetrné mlýny, 2007). Some
of his poems
have been translated in English and published in the Backwoods Broadsides
Chaplet Series, Where is the Urn? (2005), Wonders/Divas
(Poems-for-All, 2007) and No Through Road (Art Bureau, 2007). |