Love of the Scorching Wind: Selected Poems 1953-1971
Budapest and London: Corvina Press and Oxford University Press, 1973. Very Good / Very Good. Item #9596
Budapest and London: Corvina Press and Oxford University Press, 1973. First Edition Thus. Octavo (22x14.5x1cm); xiv + 84pp. Photographic dustjacket. Beige cloth with black spine lettering. Some slight shelving wear to jacket, and a minimal roll to spine. Textblock unmarred and unmarked.
Twenty-nine of the most celebrated poems by Nagy (1925-1978) are here rendered into English. They inhabit a world somewhere between Robert Frost and Dylan Thomas—but with all the scar-tissue of post-war Hungary driving them on.
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