The colonnade of teeth : modern Hungarian poetry /

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Imprint:Newcastle upon Tyne : Bloodaxe, 1996.
Description:270 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2594782
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Other authors / contributors:Gömöri, George, 1934-
Szirtes, George, 1948-
ISBN:1852243317 (pbk) : £9.95
Notes:Translated from the Hungarian.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Edwin Morgan
  • Introduction / George Gomori and George Szirtes
  • The Dreams of the One
  • Farewell (from Cricket Music)
  • Heart Attack in Tihany (from Cricket Music)
  • Ice
  • Reaction
  • Listening to Mozart
  • Moments / Lorinc Szabo
  • The Apricot Tree
  • Rivers, Fjords, Small Villages...
  • Grass Snake and Fish
  • A Sentence About Tyranny
  • Tilting Sail
  • At the Turning Point of Life / Gyula Illyes
  • Mother
  • Grief
  • Welcome to Thomas Mann
  • Night on the Outskirts
  • Without Hope
  • Dead Landscape
  • Ode
  • Elegy
  • In Light White Clothes
  • 'Well, in the End I Have Found My Home...' / Attila Jozsef
  • Maundy Thursday
  • Confession
  • Last Year's Love
  • The Poem of Darkness / Jeno Dsida
  • A Mountain Garden
  • The First Eclogue
  • The Second Eclogue
  • Foaming Sky
  • Autumn Begins Restlessly...
  • Neither Memory Nor Magic
  • Letter to My Wife
  • The Eighth Eclogue
  • A la Recherche...
  • Forced March / Miklos Radnoti
  • Western Australia
  • Swedish Rococo
  • Sonnet 85
  • In the Reading Room of the British Museum / Gyorgy Faludy
  • Gods
  • Pest Elegy
  • The Invisible Element
  • Rhapsody in an Autumn Garden
  • Romanus Sum
  • Upon a Drawing / Istvan Vas
  • The Colonnade of Teeth
  • De Profundis
  • Queen Tatavane
  • Monkeyland
  • Ars Poetica
  • from The Lost Parasol
  • Mural of the 20th Century / Sandor Weores
  • What Can Man Do on This Planet
  • The Fatties at the Baths
  • The Translator's Death
  • Findings / Laszlo Kalnoky
  • To My Bones
  • Towards a New Millennium
  • Dragon Slaying / Zoltan Jekely
  • The Shot Hare
  • Fidelity
  • Identifications
  • The Flame Gone Out
  • London Lament
  • Vampire / Gyozo (Victor) Hatar
  • Complaint
  • By the Time You Come
  • Harbach 1944
  • On the Wall of a KZ-Lager
  • November Elysium
  • Fable
  • Epilogue
  • Apocrypha
  • Quatrain
  • Enough / Janos Pilinszky
  • Trees
  • Statues
  • Birds
  • Diary
  • Sleeping Horsemen
  • To My Craft
  • To a Poet
  • Between
  • Akhenaton in Heaven / Agnes Nemes Nagy
  • The Coalmen
  • Squared by Walls
  • Cloud with a Woman's Face
  • The Visitors
  • Love of the Scorching Wind / Laszlo Nagy
  • Under a Heated Hot Tin Roof
  • When the Sooty Candles Have Guttered
  • The Meditations of Heraclius Gloss
  • Abandoned Scene / Laszlo Lator
  • Birth of the Foal
  • November Elegy
  • Sorrow Bred to Perfection
  • Seasons
  • from The Boy Changed into a Stag... / Ferenc Juhasz
  • I Shall Die...
  • History Lesson
  • Engraving
  • After-Midnight Language / Sandor Kanyadi
  • Ague
  • Barbarian Prayer
  • Memory of Snow
  • Prophecy About Your Time
  • Confession to the City / Sandor Csoori
  • An Old-Fashioned Request
  • Solution to an Imagined Puzzle
  • ...Amores te salutant / Laszlo Marsall
  • The First Time
  • A Chest with Painted Tulips
  • Historic Winter
  • Orpheus Redivirus / Elemer Horvath
  • Letter from a Declining Empire
  • From a Traveller's Notebook
  • Abda
  • My Manifold City / Gyorgy Gomori
  • At the Centre of the Universe
  • I Run from Myself
  • The Waste Within the CNS / Laszlo Bertok
  • The Ladies of Bygone Days
  • The Father of the People
  • A Roman Considers the Christians
  • The Spirit of the Age
  • A Nice Little War
  • Visit to Room 104 / Otto Orban
  • Beethoven
  • Frontiers
  • Job / Domokos Szilagyi
  • The Double
  • The Perennial Lament
  • Refurbishment / Zsuzsa Takacs
  • The Belated Halt, or Dr Jekyll's Dream
  • For the Klee-Milne Sketchbook
  • Camille Pissarro (Rue d'Amsterdam, 1897)
  • Utrillo: 'La Belle Gabrielle'
  • An Otherwise Unoccupied Swimming Pool in 1965... / Dezso Tandori
  • The Nights of O.E. Mandelstam
  • Instead of a Letter
  • Prologue to My Poems / Istvan Bella
  • By an Unknown Poet
  • Gratitude
  • To Imre Nagy
  • To Be Said Over and Over Again
  • Christmas 1956
  • In Memoriam: Peter Hajnoczy
  • Electra
  • Daydreams / Gyorgy Petri
  • An Objective Outsider, Should One Exist
  • Quatrain
  • Chairs Above the Danube
  • The Moonlight Gets into Our Heads / Szabolcs Varady
  • Franz Liszt Spends a Night Above the Fishmarket
  • The Mirror Has Broken
  • Passing Through / Istvan Baka
  • What You Need for Happiness
  • Inventory
  • How Can I Explain It to You? / Peter Kantor
  • Noon
  • No Longer
  • Addict
  • New Life
  • Decline and Fall
  • Episode
  • They Were Burning Dead Leaves
  • Wild Night, Wild Night / Zsuzsa Rakovszky
  • A Balkan Prayer
  • A Cannibal Time
  • When It Is Winter / Bela Marko
  • The Age of Great Receptions
  • A Distant Breathing
  • Poem about the Endless Programme / Geza Szocs
  • Dream and Forgetting
  • The Party According to Ramsey's Principle
  • Someone is Speaking
  • Grey Streak.