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Silver Pirouettes
György Faludy
Translated from Hungarian by Paul Sohar
Silver Pirouettes, by György Faludy and translated by Paul Sohar from Hungarian, brings Hungarian-language poetry from Hungary into English through pirouette, exile, and Faludy's wit moving through elegance and historical danger. 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 silver, dance, exile, and the performance of brilliance under pressure, 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. Silver Pirouettes belongs in the translated poetry library because it offers a Hungarian poetic voice of charm, political memory, and survival.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Ragged Sky Press
- Language
- Hungarian
- Country
- Hungary
- ISBN
- 9781933974248