Item #9596 Love of the Scorching Wind: Selected Poems 1953-1971. László Nagy, Tony Connor, Kenneth McRobbie, George Gömöri, trans. and intro, trans.
"Green earth is growing huge / blessed and blossoming with showers / as if nothing had happened / as if we had not turned cannibal."

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.

Price: $25.00