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Magyar nyelven: A költő a Balástyai nagymamájánal töltött időröl szoló gyerekkori verse az ÉS-ben jelent meg először. (English: The poet's childhood poem about his stay at his grandmother's first appeared in the Hungarian language in ÉS.) Peter Hargitai is an award-winning translator, poet and novelist. His selection of the poems of Attila József in Perched on Nothings Branch garnered for him the Academy of American Poets Landon Translation Award and a listing among world classics in Harold ...

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This short lyric poem was perhaps the first Peter Hargitai composed in his adopted language. The sentimental, fatalistic tone is no doubt a carry-over from his native Hungarian poetics, but at 17, what poet isn't sentimental? Peter Hargitai is an award-winning translator, poet and novelist. His selection of the poems of Attila József in Perched on Nothings Branch garnered for him the Academy of American Poets Landon Translation Award and a listing among world classics in Harold Blooms The ...

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Haunting fatally-erotic poem by the great Hungarian poet Attila Jozsef recited by his American translator, the poet Peter Hargitai. The song Varj Ream (Simonov) performed by Ivan Darvas. Peter Hargitai is an award-winning translator, poet and novelist. His selection of the poems of Attila József in Perched on Nothings Branch garnered for him the Academy of American Poets Landon Translation Award and a listing among world classics in Harold Blooms The Western Canon. For his translation of ...

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Peter Hargitai's poem Monument to a Kid of Budapest 50 Years Later is dedicated to the girls of Budapest who fought so bravely against overwhelming Soviet armor in 1956. It is from his book Daughter of the Revolution (2006). An eyewitness at age 9, he wrote his first poem about the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. Peter Hargitai is an award-winning translator, poet and novelist. His selection of the poems of Attila József in Perched on Nothings Branch garnered for him the Academy of American ...

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