''Antikódy'' (''Anticodes'') is a book of experimental

poem Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in ...

s and calligrammes by

Václav Havel Václav Havel (; 5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and former dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then ...

. Most of the poems are based on visual effect on the reader (e. g. a poem consisting of repetitive word "''forward''" only, in a shape of a cycle, or a poem made of the word "''life''" in a shape of cross, meaning death). It consists of four parts, first written in 1964, second 1964 – 1969, third 1970 – 1989, and the last one after 1989 (consisting of two poems: ''HRAD? Hrádeček?'' (''CASTLE? Little castle?''), i. e. a poem reflecting his political moods, and ''Kavárna Slavie'' (''Café Slavia'')).

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