Attila Jozsef Selected Poems Jozsef Attila
Attila Jozsef Selected Poems Jozsef Attila Award-winning translator Peter Hargitai celebrates 100 years of Attila J zsef (1905-1937) in this new selection of 100 poems. His translation of Attila J…
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Attila Jozsef Selected Poems Jozsef Attila
Award-winning translator Peter Hargitai celebrates 100 years of Attila J zsef (1905-1937) in this new selection of 100 poems. His translation of Attila J zsef is listed among the world classics cited by Harold Bloom in The Western Canon.Praise for Peter Hargitai's translation of Attila J zsef: "These grim, bitter, iron-cold poems emerge technically strong, spare and authentic in English, and they are admirably contemporary in syntax." --MAY SWENSON in Citation for the Academy of American Poets "A rich nuanced translation by Peter Hargitai. His previous selection, Perched On Nothing's Branch (1986), enjoyed a remarkable run of five editions and won for him the Academy of American Poets' Landon Translation Award.
These poems are ageless, mirroring the human conditions and focusing in humankind's existential loneliness." --MAXINE KUMIN "I have