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Janos Pilinszky (1921-1981) was a unique and compelling voice among the generation of European poets whose work bore first-hand witness to the horrors of war. The distinction of his poetry, as Ted Hughes argues, is both spiritual and artistic: 'the desolation of [his] vision is equalled by its radiance'. The depth and power of Pilinszky's poetry are forcefully recreated in these memorable versions by Janos Csokits and Ted Hughes. "The Desert of Love" is a revised edition of their earlier selection of his magnetic, intense and haunting poems. The added memoir by Pilinszky's close friend and associate gnes Nemes Nagy gives a major living Hungarian poet's view of his achievement.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry

• Full title: Desert of Love
• Subtitle: Selected Poems
• Author: János Pilinszky
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 80
• EAN: 9780856461774
• ID: 05152089
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Weight: 254 g
• Dimensions: 224 × 146 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: November 1987

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