Fabry's first collection "Severed Hands" was a provocation for some -- it felt like an unprecedented youthful riot within Slovak literature, a "hooliganism" they could accept only with difficulty (and indeed, some never accepted it at all). For others, this was the long expected new "courageous and young" word, declaring new opportunities for Slovak poetry. As far as the presence of deliberate "provocation" is concerned, I really don't know whether there is an equivalent to Fabry`s début in the history of our poetry.</p>
