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Become a Message
Lajos Walder
Translated from Hungarian by Agnes Walder
Become a Message, by Lajos Walder and translated by Agnes Walder from Hungarian, brings Hungarian-language poetry from Hungary into English through message, survival, and Hungarian-Jewish memory carried through a familial act of translation. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for message, witness, inheritance, and the duty of letting a silenced voice travel forward, not as a fixed lesson about Hungary. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Become a Message belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives the library a Hungarian work shaped by testimony and continuity.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Upper West Side Philosophers, Incorporated
- Language
- Hungarian
- Country
- Hungary
- ISBN
- 9781935830306