Hideghullám

Poems built as an ongoing conversation, made of murmured speech and scraps of talk, a divided first-person voice and a shadowy 'you'. They move between inner spaces of mind and language and the very real paths of the Gesztenyéskert in Buda. Repetition, finding and going astray set the rhythm; a slipped word or a twisted suffix opens new ways forward, as the poet follows his own memory and the old question of whether the limits of our language are the limits of our world.

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About the book

Form

Poetry

Length

192 pages in the original

Set in

Hungary

First published

2015 by Magvető

Author's age

66 when first published

ISBN

9789631432572 (original)