Selected Poems And Texts
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Few poets of the twentieth century have channelled the raw anguish of poverty, alienation, and political turbulence into verse as searingly as Attila József. Selected Poems and Texts presents an authoritative gathering of work by Hungary's most celebrated modern poet, translated from the Hungarian by John Bátki and edited by George Gömöri and James Atlas. The collection illuminates József's extraordinary range — from tender lyrical meditations on love and nature to unflinching portraits of industrial Budapest and the grinding despair of the dispossessed working class. József's poetry stands at a crossroads of surrealism, Marxist thought, and deeply personal confession, forging a voice that is at once universal and unmistakably Hungarian. His tragic life — marked by poverty, mental illness, and an early death at thirty-two — infuses every line with a visceral urgency that refuses to be domesticated by time or translation. This edition, through Bátki's sensitive renderings and the editorial acuity of Gömöri and Atlas, offers English-language readers an unmediated encounter with a genius whose full reckoning in the Western canon remains, still, an open question.
Author: Attila József
Format: Hardback
Published: 1973, Carcanet Press
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: worn with small tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Good.
Few poets of the twentieth century have channelled the raw anguish of poverty, alienation, and political turbulence into verse as searingly as Attila József. Selected Poems and Texts presents an authoritative gathering of work by Hungary's most celebrated modern poet, translated from the Hungarian by John Bátki and edited by George Gömöri and James Atlas. The collection illuminates József's extraordinary range — from tender lyrical meditations on love and nature to unflinching portraits of industrial Budapest and the grinding despair of the dispossessed working class. József's poetry stands at a crossroads of surrealism, Marxist thought, and deeply personal confession, forging a voice that is at once universal and unmistakably Hungarian. His tragic life — marked by poverty, mental illness, and an early death at thirty-two — infuses every line with a visceral urgency that refuses to be domesticated by time or translation. This edition, through Bátki's sensitive renderings and the editorial acuity of Gömöri and Atlas, offers English-language readers an unmediated encounter with a genius whose full reckoning in the Western canon remains, still, an open question.