Book Reviews
Summer 2006
On the Several Home Fronts: Song Among Magyar Contemporaries
In Quest of the “Miracle Stag “: The Poetry of Hungary, Volume II. An Anthology of Hungarian Poetry in English Translation from the Start of the 20th Century to the […]
Book Reviews
Spring 2000
From the Carpathian Basin to Chicago: Review Two New Anthologies of Hungarian Poetry
In Quest of the “Miracle Stag”: The Poetry of Hungary, an Anthology of Hungarian Poetry in English Translation from the Thirteenth Century to the Present. Ed. by Ádám Makkai. Foreword […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1990
The Allegory of Spandau
On Monday, 17 August 1987, in the early morning hours, Rudolf Hess, inhabitant of Cell number 17 at Spandau Prison in West Berlin, was found dead in his cell with […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1982
Translating Poetry: Notes on a Solitary Craft
In Anthony Hecht’s poem “The Venetian Vespers” the persona contemplates the Basilica of St Mark’s, That splendid monument to the labors of Grave robbers, body snatchers, those lawless two Entrepreneurial […]
Poetry
Spring 1981
Face
Touch that deep-printed diaper, pattern of garden, park, soft as a clump of leaves, on this paperback’s cover, and you’ll untangle a face, extradimensional. Store fronts, sidewalks are swept and […]
Poetry
Autumn 1980
Love’s Desert
From the Hungarian. A bridge, a hot concrete road, daytime empties its pockets, displays, piece by piece, all it has. You’re alone in the catatonic twilight. The land: like […]
Poetry
Spring 1980
Rain Falls. It Dries….
From the Hungarian. Rain falls. It dries. Sun shines. A horse whinnies. Look on at the world’s minute flutters. In the depth of a workshop a lamp burning, cat […]