Light Within The Shade 800 Years Of Hungarian Poetry by Zsuzsanna Ozsva and translated by Frederick Turner

This is poetry from Hungary.

Light Within The Shade 800 Years Of Hungarian Poetry by Zsuzsanna Ozsva translated by Frederick Turner is published by Syracuse University Press. This is a Book originally written in Hungarian. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780815633624E12.

Light Within The Shade 800 Years Of Hungarian Poetry is an anthology translated by Frederick Turner from Hungarian, gathering Hungarian-language poetry from Hungary through eight centuries of Hungarian poetry gathered as a historical chorus rather than a single-author collection. Its value comes from chorus rather than singular authorship, so I would not treat it as one poet’s private weather. The better entrance is through shade, light, history, and the long continuity of a language singing through political change. Anthologies can become maps, but the best ones also leave room for wandering, disagreement, and surprise. Light Within The Shade 800 Years Of Hungarian Poetry belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives the library a broad anthology doorway into Hungarian poetic tradition. It gives a reader several doors into a tradition before asking them to choose only one.

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