Always Different: Poems of Memory
Description
This collection of poetry from Hungarian master Gyula Jenei, peers into nostalgia and its uncertainties, grappling with histories and temporalities that are unrecognizable or gone.Product Details
Earn by promoting books
Earn money by sharing your favorite books through our Affiliate program.
Become an affiliate
About the Author
Gyula Jenei (born in 1962 in Abádszalók, Hungary) is a poet, writer, editor, and educator. As founder and editor of the quarterly literary magazine Eső (translatable as "Rain" or "Falling"), he has brought literature and literary events to the Szolnok area for over twenty years. His poems and other writings comprise fifteen books.
Diana Senechal, a writer, translator, and educator, is the 2011 winner of the Hiett Prize in the Humanities, awarded annually by the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. Her translations of the Lithuanian poems of Tomas Venclova have been published in two books, Winter Dialogue (Northwestern University Press, 1997) and The Junction (Bloodaxe, 2008). Senechal teaches English, American civilization, and British civilization at the Varga Katalin Gimnázium in Szolnok, Hungary.
Reviews
"One of the great masters of Hungarian free verse." --Éva Bánki
"What are we looking for in our childhood when we take stock of such and such events, sins, tragedies?... A silent poet whose every word I hear." --László Darvasi
"Real lyrical ingenuity." --Ferenc Simon
"One afternoon I read through Gyula Jenei's Always Different, more than a hundred pages of poetry, and after the first poems I said to myself that yes, this is my world." --Vince Fekete
"The culmination of a lyrical material with a rich past." --Ádám Sebestyén
