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The Conscience of Trees
Zoltan Boszormenyi
Translated from Hungarian by Paul Sohar
The Conscience of Trees, by Zoltan Boszormenyi and translated by Paul Sohar from Hungarian, brings Hungarian-language poetry from Hungary into English through trees, conscience, and the moral imagination rooted in an ecological figure. 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 trees, conscience, shade, and the ethical pressure of living things that outlast us, 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. The Conscience of Trees belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives Hungarian poetry an arboreal, reflective, and quietly public mode.
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- Ragged Sky Press
- Language
- Hungarian
- Country
- Hungary
- ISBN
- 9781933974293