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Lajos Pintér

Three Young Hungarian Poets

Summer 1981

Instead of a Flag

By Lajos Pintér, translated by Kenneth McRobbie

Translated from Hungarian.   The one who says dear not only to girls—    but to woman-maned landscape, black-ribbon wreathed houses, homeland farms.      The one who can say my people, my […]

Three Young Hungarian Poets

Summer 1981

Ballad of When the Going’s Rough

By Lajos Pintér, translated by Kenneth McRobbie

Translated from Hungarian.  Approved, the irregular going by regulations, approved, the permitting of disobedience, rubber-stamping each other, then        the real carnival will be us: we’ll drop in, bringing festival to […]