PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT


	Miroslav Holub, a noted Czech poet, will be reading from his
work at the University of Virginia on Thursday, Oct. 24, at 8 p.m.
in Campbell Hall 153.  Holub is an internationally known
immunologist as well as a highly acclaimed and award-winning poet.
Associated with this century's experimentalist traditions, he is the
author of many books of poetry, some of which have been translated
into English.  A new collection of poems, "Intensive Care:  New and
Selected Poems," has just appeared from Oberlin.  Holub has said
that he is "interested in finding poetic equivalents for the new
reality of the micro-world."  According to Holub, "What I do is not
bringing science into poetry, it's bringing a kind of language. The
only way I bring science into poetry is through orderliness."

	Holub plans to read from his new collection, which spans 40
years of writing, much of it under circumstances that involved risk
and silence.  His work has been described as "a fresh perspective
that widens our horizons -- on history, on science, on politics and
art, on the meaning of being human -- in ways that are continually
invigorating, unsettling, breathtaking." 

	For information call the U.Va. Creative Writing Program at
(804) 924-6675.

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October 15, 1996

START DATE: Immediate
KILL DATE:    Oct. 25, 1996