Attila Jozsef Selected Poems

Attila Jozsef Selected Poems PDF Author: Attila Jozsef
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595356141
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 151

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Award-winning translator Peter Hargitai celebrates 100 years of Attila József (1905-1937) in this new selection of 100 poems. 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. His translation of Attila József is listed among the world classics cited by Harold Bloom in The Western Canon. Praise for Peter Hargitai's translation of Attila József: "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. These poems are ageless, mirroring the human conditions and focusing in humankind's existential loneliness." --MAXINE KUMIN "I have long thought of Attila József as one of the great poets of the century, a tragic realist whose work beautifully redeemed the unbearable conditions of the life to which history condemned him. These new translations by Peter Hargitai will be welcomed by József's admirers and will certainly add to their number." --DONALD JUSTICE "[Other] translations of József's work are stiff and academic, whereas peter Hargitai's versions are colloquial and emotionally charged as the originals. Reading them one lapses into the silence that attends the reception of all great poetry." --DAVID KIRBY

Attila Jozsef Selected Poems

Attila Jozsef Selected Poems PDF Author: Attila Jozsef
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595356141
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 151

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Book Description
Award-winning translator Peter Hargitai celebrates 100 years of Attila József (1905-1937) in this new selection of 100 poems. 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. His translation of Attila József is listed among the world classics cited by Harold Bloom in The Western Canon. Praise for Peter Hargitai's translation of Attila József: "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. These poems are ageless, mirroring the human conditions and focusing in humankind's existential loneliness." --MAXINE KUMIN "I have long thought of Attila József as one of the great poets of the century, a tragic realist whose work beautifully redeemed the unbearable conditions of the life to which history condemned him. These new translations by Peter Hargitai will be welcomed by József's admirers and will certainly add to their number." --DONALD JUSTICE "[Other] translations of József's work are stiff and academic, whereas peter Hargitai's versions are colloquial and emotionally charged as the originals. Reading them one lapses into the silence that attends the reception of all great poetry." --DAVID KIRBY

Winter Night

Winter Night PDF Author: Attila József
Publisher: Field Translation Series
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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In pure lyrics and longer elegiac poems this great Hungarian poet inscribed not only his own sad fate but that of millions in an Eastern Europe that only nominally "between the wars" during the '20s and 30s. Translator Bátki demonstrates how contemporary this work remains.

Winter Night

Winter Night PDF Author: Attila József
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789631344097
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 127

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Perched on Nothing's Branch

Perched on Nothing's Branch PDF Author: Attila József
Publisher: White Pine Press
ISBN: 9781893996007
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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Winner of the Landon Translation Prize from the Academy of American Poets.

By the Danube

By the Danube PDF Author: Attila József
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789631359503
Category : Hungarian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 223

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A Transparent Lion

A Transparent Lion PDF Author: Attila József
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Regarded by many as Hungary's greatest 20th century poet, Jozsef was born in Budapest in 1905 and died, after apparently throwing himself under a train, in December of 1937. Writing in intense emotional tones that swung beetween despair and hope, Jozsef invigorated old poetic forms with a new freedom, orchestrating his poems with fresh rythmic patterns influenced by folk music's rythms as well as their metrics. But Jozsef was also influenced by Dadaist and other modernist ideas, finding a voice that would synthetise the older cultural forms with the newer experiments.

The Iron-blue Vault

The Iron-blue Vault PDF Author: Attila József
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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A selection of poems by twentieth-century Hungarian poet Attila Jozsef, with information about his tragic life.

Attila József, Selected Poems and Texts

Attila József, Selected Poems and Texts PDF Author: Attila József
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780877450733
Category : Poets, Hungarian
Languages : en
Pages : 103

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Selected Poems and Texts Of! Attila Jozsef

Selected Poems and Texts Of! Attila Jozsef PDF Author: Attila Jozsef
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 103

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Berlin-Hamlet

Berlin-Hamlet PDF Author: Szilárd Borbély
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681370557
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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Shortlisted for the 2017 National Translation Award in Poetry and the 2017 Best Translated Book Award in Poetry Before his tragic death, Szilárd Borbély had gained a name as one of Europe's most searching new poets. Berlin-Hamlet—one of his major works—evokes a stroll through the phantasmagoric shopping arcades described in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, but instead of the delirious image fragments of nineteenth-century European culture, we pass by disembodied scraps of written text, remnants as ghostly as their authors: primarily Franz Kafka but also Benjamin himself or the Hungarian poets Attila József or Erno Szép. Paraphrases and reworked quotations, drawing upon the vanished prewar legacy, particularly its German Jewish aspects, appear in sharp juxtaposition with images of post-1989 Berlin frantically rebuilding itself in the wake of German reunification.