Hungary's Agnes Nemes Nagy (1922-91) is one of Europe's major
modern poets. Her poems are clear and packed at once, monumental
yet crystalline in their thought and organisation. The vast
pressures of her nation's troubled history find their equivalent in
human feeling, voiced through the extraordinary compressed power
and explosive formality of Nemes Nagy's poetry. Her subjects
include nature, myth and the vastnesses of geological time, but her
manner is epic, tragic and epigrammatic. Co-editor of New Moon, the
most important literary magazine in Hungary after the War, her own
work was banned and the magazine closed in the 1950s, but both have
had a lasting effect on later generations. Too distant, too
unbending, too disdainful of popularity to be a popular writer, she
was neverthless acclaimed as the most important Hungarian poet of
the postwar period, and her influence has been as much a moral
force (to do with integrity and intellectual passion) as a matter
of range and technique. This selection contains poems from all
periods of Nemes Nagy's output, from the 1940s to work written
immediately prior to her death. It includes poems from her
Akhenaton cycle where she grapples most intensely with history,
responsibility and justice, carving a new theology or cosmology out
of these desperately fissile forces. Identifying with the Egyptian
boy-king, she looks to invent a necessary god; recalling the
energies of the 1956 Uprising, she tries to find rituals to
articulate them - as her wild, wild thought is carved into large,
clear, rational forms.
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