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

Literature & Fiction

József, Attila

Poetry

iUniverse

Forty poems and one essay by the left-wing schizophrenic Hungarian poet who committed suicide by throwing himself under a train."I have long thought of Attila Jozsef 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 will be welcomed."—Donald Justice

Perched on Nothing's Branch

Apalachee Pr

Attila Jozsef's extraordinary poetry is exhilarating in its power and transcends the scars of a difficult life. He is a genuinely revolutionary poet, neither simple-minded nor difficult, though his thought and imagery are complex. A deeply divided man, his poetry has a robust physicality as well as a jaunty and heroic intelligence-which is Marxist in its dedication but fueled in its audacity by both Freud and Surrealism. This new collection of his poetry includes two lengthy essays by the translators on his life and his art of poetry.

The Iron-Blue Vault: Selected Poems

Bloodaxe Books

Forty poems and one essay by the left-wing schizophrenic Hungarian poet who committed suicide by throwing himself under a train. "I have long thought of Attila Jozsef 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 will be welcomed."—Donald Justice

History & Criticism

White Pine Press

Regarded by many as Hungary’s greatest twentieth-century poet, Atilla Jószef was born in 1905 in Budapest and published numerous collections throughout his life. He died, of suicide, under the wheels of a train in 1937.
Translated by Michael Castro and Gábor G. Gyukics.

A Transparent Lion: Selected Poems (Green Integer)

Green Integer

Altató / Lullaby - Hungarian board book

Szalma Edit

Móra könyvkiadó

Tanulmányok József Attiláról

Kabdebó, Lóránt.

Anonymus

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