This quarter-century opened with Janos Kadar exercising a third decade of political power, in the wake of the Soviet invasion of 1956.Hungary, however, was instrumental in the changes of 1989, initiating free elections. The transition to democracy was peaceful. A number of Hungarian poets included in this volume are already known to Anglophone poetry-lovers, Gyula Illyes, Otto Orban, Gyorgy Petri and Sandor Weores among them.
Poets: Istvan Baka,...
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