I fell beside him. His body - which was taut as a cord is, when it snaps - spun as I fell. Shot in the neck. 'This is how you will end, 'I whispered to myself' keep lying still. Now, patience is flowering into death. "Der springt noch auf,' said someone over me. Blood on my ears was drying, caked with earth. Postcard IV'[We are] fortunate in ...
This anthology presents the work of the most important Hungarian poets born after the turn of the century, starting with the major figure of Lorinc Szabo, born in 1900. Some of the poets have worked while in exile -- Gyorgy Faludy and Victor Hatar for example. Others, including Sador Kanyadi, are members of Hungarian minorities living outside ...
Miklos Radnoti (1909-1944), Hungary's classicist-avant-garde poet, was also a prolific translator and editor who wrote some of his greatest poems in the labour camps and copper mines of Yugoslavia before being killed by the Nazis at an early age. Leaving behind a body of work that ranks with the classics of Hungarian verse, his influence is now ...
Gyorgy Petri belongs to the generation of Hungarian poets who grew up after the uprising of 1956. He made his name in the West as the most outrageous of his country's dissident authors. At home he was often praised for his strangely disquieting love poetry, which is harsh, erotic, and disenchanted. All his poems are marked by his biting humor and ...
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