A ground-breaking anthology showcasing the voices of ten remarkable Hungarian women poets for English-language readers, featuring renowned poets like Ágnes Nemes Nagy and Zsuzsa Rakovszky, whose works have been celebrated internationally, alongside voices such as Gizella Hervay and Magda Székely, who are introduced in-depth to English readers for the first time. Through original and lyrical language, these poets chronicle the traumas of World War II, the Hungarian Holocaust, and the societal upheavals of the 1989 regime change, exploring themes of identity and resilience. Their poems reflect deeply personal confrontations with their roles as citizens, daughters, mothers, and witnesses to turbulent and often disorienting historical epochs.
László Földényi, Beyond Happiness: Essays on Rupture and Revelation, Yale University PressErvin Lázár, The Four-Cornered Round Forest, Elsewhere Editions, Archipelago Books