Birds and Other Relations Selected Poetry of Dezso Tandori

Born in Budapest in 1938, Dezsö Tandori is a novelist, playwright, translator, and graphic artist, as well as one of Hungary's most celebrated poets. Here is a booklength selection of his work. Brilliantly eccentric, and characterized by an astonishing formal dexterity, these poems address fundamental issues: the effort to establish personal identity in an impersonal world, the conflicting demands--private, social, and historical--that provide the texture of a lived moment, and the necessity of affirmation that finds its locus in the act of writing.

Originally published in 1987.

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Dezsö Tandori

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Born in Budapest in 1938, Dezso Tandori is a novelist, playwright, translator, and graphic artist, as well as one of Hungary's most celebrated poets. Here is a booklength selection of his work. Brilliantly eccentric, and characterized by an astonishing formal dexterity, these poems address fundamental issues: the effort to establish personal identi

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• Authors: Dezso Tandori, Dezsö Tandori, Dezsoe Tandori
• Assisted by: Bruce Sieburth (Editor), Peter Cole (Editor), Rosanna Warren (Editor), Bruce Berlind (Translation), Berlind Bruce (Translation)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.05.2016
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama
• EAN: 9780691638188
• ISBN: 978-0-691-63818-8
• Pages: 172
• Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in T > 106; Princeton Legacy Library; The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
• Subjects: POETRY / General; Poetry by individual poets; Poetry / poems by individual poets