Overview
The poems in Jenei's collection Always Different: Poems of Memory grapple with childhood, memory, and time. The poet looks back forty years and imagines himself as a boy-the narrator of the poems-looking forward into the future. Thus the poems combine moments with sweeps of time, village scenes with rumblings of societal and technological change. In the tradition of Hungarian writers P ter N das and gota Krist f, Jenei grapples with war and destruction, loneliness, desire, and loss. The literary historian va B nki calls Jenei "one of the great masters of Hungarian free verse"-adding that his poems also hold an epic theme, "the strange underworld of the K d r era, rural Hungary shown through a child's eye." Through their storytelling, searching, and rhythms, these poems take us into our communal yet private longing for self-knowledge, history, and home.
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- ISBN-13: 9781646051236
- ISBN-10: 1646051238
- Publisher: Phoneme Media
- Publish Date: April 2022
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.91 x 0.47 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.45 pounds
- Page Count: 196
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