First edition, a collection of fourteen poems.

After the First World War, during which he had escaped from captivity in Montenegro and succumbed to tuberculosis, Biebl began to publish poetry in periodicals, joinging the avant-garde literary and artistic group Devětsil, for whom the typography and visual appearance of poems was paramount. He regularly collaborated with Josef Čapek, brother of the playwright Karel.

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