PETER HARGITAI's work, both in scope and in style, remains well
outside the pale of current poetic fashion including the McPoems of
MFA mills and the lip- tongue- ear literature of hiphop. Influenced
by the great Hungarian poet Attila Jozsef's obsession with the
eternal mother as a metaphor for all human longing, Hargitai probes
the nature of spiritual exile on terms that are neither Freudian
nor Jungian, American, or Hungarian, but on terms that are uniquely
personal and movingly human. Praise for Peter Hargitai's Mother
Tongue: A Broken-Hungarian Love Song:
"If traditional confessional poetry, now considered classical,
had its halcyon days in the work of Roethke, Lowell, and Plath, it
can be said to have reached a new, ethnically charged peak in the
work of Peter Hargitai."
Pembroke Magazine
"Peter Hargitai is a remarkable versatile and humanely touching
poet with a truly distinctive style and voice. These deeply probing
intellectual poems exhibit an impressive range and vivacity of
genres." Laurence Lieberman Poetry Editor University of Illinois
Press
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