The Iron-Blue Vault

by Jozsef, Attila

• ISBN13: 9781852245030
• ISBN10: 1852245034
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Summary

Attila Jozsef's extraordinary poetry is exhilarating in its power and transcends the scars of a difficult life. He is a genuinely revolutionary poet, neither simple-minded nor difficult, though his thought and imagery are complex. A deeply divided man, his poetry has a robust physicality as well as a jaunty and heroic intelligence-which is Marxist in its dedication but fueled in its audacity by both Freud and Surrealism. This new collection of his poetry includes two lengthy essays by the translators on his life and his art of poetry.

Table of Contents

`Sun-bedazzled, Dream-afflicted': The search for Attila Jozsef	9	(34)
Zsuzsanna Ozsvath
The Ars Poetica of Attila Jozsef	43	(21)
Frederick Turner
The Iron-blue Vault: Selected Poems
Dear Joco!	64	(1)
Earth to Earth	65	(1)
No Shriek of Mine	66	(1)
With a Pure Heart	67	(1)
Song of Young Women	68	(1)
Sitting, Standing, Killing, Dying	69	(1)
Introduction	70	(1)
This Is My Blessing, Sad and Merry	70	(1)
Attila Jozsef	71	(1)
Aron Jozsef Got Me	72	(1)
Rockabye	73	(1)
Lay Your Hand	73	(1)
I Knew It	74	(1)
Pearl	74	(1)
Beads	75	(1)
Rime	76	(1)
Medallions	77	(3)
Tiszazug	80	(2)
Summer	82	(1)
The Woodcutter	83	(1)
The Kings of Bethlehem	84	(1)
In Memory of Ady	85	(1)
On a Poet	86	(1)
Chant	87	(1)
Grief	88	(1)
What Will Become of Him...	89	(2)
Night in the Outskirts	91	(3)
The Last of Seven	94	(2)
Winter Night	96	(3)
Beyond Hope	99	(1)
On the Edge of the City	100	(3)
Elegy	103	(2)
Ode	105	(4)
(Self-devouring, haggard Virtue!...)	109	(2)
Consciousness	111	(3)
Mother	114	(1)
Mama	114	(1)
Dread	115	(3)
Lullaby	118	(1)
I Did Not Know	119	(1)
Sin	119	(2)
Late Lament	121	(2)
That Which Your Heart Disguises	123	(1)
You Gave Me Childhood	124	(1)
By the Danube	125	(3)
Enlighten Him	128	(1)
Beautiful Immemorial Woman	129	(1)
Agony	130	(3)
Desolation	133	(1)
My Eyes Jump In and Out	134	(1)
The Scream	135	(1)
Inventory Closed	136	(1)
Welcome for Thomas Mann	137	(1)
Ars Poetica	138	(2)
Flora	140	(3)
March	143	(1)
Tumble out of the Flood	144	(1)
To Flora	145	(2)
For My Birthday	147	(1)
(Here Comes the Storm...)	148	(1)
My Country	149	(4)
(Who Would This Poem...)	153	(1)
Eagle	153	(1)
Mercy Denied Forever	154	(1)
`On Our Poet and His Time'	155	(2)
(No Flowers, but a Spike...)	157	(1)
(And So I've Found My Native Country...)	158	(2)
Notes on the Translators	160