Always Different: Poems of Memory

By Gyula Jenei

The poems in Jenei's collection Always Different: Poems of Memory grapple with childhood, memory, and time. The poet looks back forty years and imagines himself as a boy-the narrator of the poems-looking forward into the future. Thus the poems combine moments with sweeps of time, village scenes with rumblings of societal and technological change. In the tradition of Hungarian writers P ter N das and gota Krist f, Jenei grapples with war and destruction, loneliness, desire, and loss. The literary historian va B nki calls Jenei "one of the great masters of Hungarian free verse"-adding that his poems also hold an epic theme, "the strange underworld of the K d r era, rural Hungary shown through a child's eye." Through their storytelling, searching, and rhythms, these poems take us into our communal yet private longing for self-knowledge, history, and home.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1646051238
• ISBN13: 9781646051236
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Phoneme Media
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"