Research Catalog

Title

Before and after the fall : new poems / by Sándor Csoóri ; translated from the Hungarian by Len Roberts.

Author

Csoóri, Sándor

Publication

Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Roberts, Len, 1947-2007

Description

123 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

• "The poems in Before and After the Fall were written between 1985 and 1994, and have been translated by Len Roberts, a faithful translator of Csoori's work. Before and After the Fall is the first time these poems have appeared in English in a full-book format.".
• "Csoori's poems record what he calls "the chronic memory of violence," namely the horrors of World War II and the repressions of the ensuing forty-five-year Communist occupation. A number of Csoori's poems written after 1989, the year Communism collapsed in Hungary, cast a cold eye on Hungary as a struggling, free nation.
• Never reluctant to examine greed or hypocrisy, his poems address the complex social and political systems human beings create, advance, and, at times, corrupt. Csoori has always believed that the poet must speak for those who may not be able to speak for themselves."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

The Lannan translations selection series

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections. English
• Lannan translations selection series

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

Csoóri, Sándor > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Translations

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Before the Fall: Poems from Monuments of the World (1989) -- The Day After Easter -- Injured Poem -- My Masters -- There Are Only Days -- I Will Bear Your Slow Purification -- The Time Has Come -- Can You Still Hear It? -- A Night Journey into Germany -- I Look Back and Don't See Myself -- Holy and Wicked Time -- Returning Home from the Flight After the War -- The Nook Was Fine for Me -- Poets, My Fellows -- May the Water Keep Vigil with Me -- Forest in the Matras -- August Evening -- I'd Have to Go Blind -- I'd Rather Stay at Home -- Diary, Early Fall of 1982 -- It Will Remain My Living Memory -- Late Winter Morning -- In the Summer, I Can Hear a Clatter of Hooves -- I Wanted to Arrange -- The Missed Roads -- So You Won't Be a Witness Today Either -- Monuments of the World -- In the Grape Dropped on the Sidewalk -- Among the Ferns of Finland -- You Look at Me Like -- Young Nuns of Rome -- As Blue-Flamed Butterflies with the Prodigal Son -- If You Were God's Relative -- Courtyard at Home, Before Autumn -- After the Fall: Poems from With Swans, in Cannon Fire (1994) -- Wandering in a Former Party Office Building -- Sometimes I Watch Her -- In Filtered Shade -- The Citizen of the Garden -- I Rip a Blade of Grass in Half -- Etching of a Small Town -- Sunday Still Life--with Table, with Knife -- Where Are My Betters Who Fell Behind? -- Seasons at Odds with Themselves -- Biographical Fragment -- February Vision -- Bicycle Racers -- If This Were Life -- Godless Summer -- Widows Danced -- I, Too, Might Have Been.

ISBN

• 1929918461 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 192991847X (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004004651

OCLC

• 54503560
• SCSB-12027809

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library