| Perched on Nothing's Branch: Selected Poems of Attila Jozsef Contributor(s): Jozsef, Attila (Author), Hargitai, Peter (Translator) |
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ISBN: 189399600X ISBN-13: 9781893996007 Publisher: White Pine Press (NY) OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 1999 Annotation: Forty poems and one essay by the left-wing schizophrenic Hungarian poet who committed suicide by throwing himself under a train. "I have long thought of Attila Jozsef as one of the great poets of the century-a tragic realist whose work beautifully redeemed the unbearable conditions of the life to which history condemned him. These new translations will be welcomed."-Donald Justice |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General |
| Dewey: 894.511 |
| LCCN: 99043487 |
| Series: Terra Incognita |
| Physical Information: 0.27" H x 5.48" W x 8.43" (0.31 lbs) 80 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Forty poems and one essay by the left-wing schizophrenic Hungarian poet who committed suicide by throwing himself under a train. I have long thought of Attila Jozsef as one of the great poets of the century--a tragic realist whose work beautifully redeemed the unbearable conditions of the life to which history condemned him. These new translations will be welcomed.--Donald Justice |