Valahol itt

Poems written between 2012 and 2017, at home in their subject even when they speak of losing a home or having none. Private and public life lie so close together that new poems about the mood of the times arise, in which the different spaces of the speaker's life connect; one landmark is Kossuth Square, a block from the poet's home and one of the most symbolic places of Hungarian history and politics. Another thread is how memory works, as earlier moments and encounters are called up again. Poems on paintings by Vermeer, Van Gogh and Francis Bacon do not describe the pictures but remake them, framing the painter along with the canvas.

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About the book

Form

Poetry

Length

132 pages in the original

Set in

Hungary

First published

2017 by Magvető

Author's age

68 when first published

ISBN

9789631433883 (original)