Final Matters
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Final Matters

Selected Poems, 2004-2010

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Final Matters

Selected Poems, 2004-2010

About this book

An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetry

Szilárd Borbély, one of the most celebrated writers to emerge from post-Communist Hungary, received numerous literary awards in his native country. In this volume, acclaimed translator Ottilie Mulzet reveals the full range and force of Borbély's verse by bringing together generous selections from his last two books, Final Matters and To the Body. The original Hungarian text is set on pages facing the English translations, and the book also features an afterword by Mulzet that places the poems in literary, historical, and biographical context.

Restless, curious, learned, and alert, Borbély weaves into his work an unlikely mix of Hungarian folk songs, Christian and Jewish hymns, classical myths, police reports, and unsettling accounts of abortions. In her afterword, Mulzet calls this collection "a blasphemous and fragmentary prayer book … that challenges us to rethink the boundaries of victimhood, culpability, and our own religious and cultural definitions."

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Nothing 
Is 
Lost: 
Selected 
Poems
by 
Edvard 
Kocbek, 
translated 
by 
Michael 
Scammell 
and 
Veno 
Taufer, 
and 
introduced 
by 
Michael 
Scammell, 
with 
a 
foreword 
by 
Charles 
Simic
e 
Complete 
Elegies 
of 
Sextus 
Propertius
, 
translated 
with 
introduction 
and 
notes 
by 
Vincent 
Katz
Knowing 
the 
East
, 
by 
Paul 
Claudel, 
translated 
with 
introduction 
and 
notes 
by 
James 
Lawler
Enough 
to 
Say 
It’s 
Far: 
Selected 
Poems 
of 
Pak 
Chaesam
, 
translated 
by 
David 
R. 
McCann 
and 
Jiwon 
Shin
In 
Hora 
Mortis/Under 
the 
Iron 
of 
the 
Moon: 
Poems,
by 
omas 
Bernhard, 
translated 
by 
James 
Reidel
e 
Greener 
Meadow: 
Selected 
Poems 
by 
Luciano 
Erba, 
translated 
by 
Peter 
Robinson
e 
Dream 
of 
the 
Poem: 
Hebrew 
Poetry 
from 
Muslim 
and 
Christian 
Spain, 
950–1492
, 
translated, 
edited, 
and 
introduced 
by 
Peter 
Cole
e 
Collected 
Lyric 
Poems 
of 
Luís 
de 
Camões
, 
translated 
by 
Landeg 
White
C. 
P. 
Cavafy: 
Collected 
Poems, 
Bilingual 
Edition
, 
translated 
by 
Edmund 
Keeley 
and 
Philip 
Sherrard, 
edited 
by 
George 
Savidis, 
with 
a 
new 
preface 
by 
Robert 
Pinsky
Poems 
Under 
Saturn: 
Poèmes 
saturniens
, 
by 
Paul 
Verlaine, 
translated 
and 
with 
an 
introduction 
by 
Karl 
Kirchwey
Final 
Matters: 
Selected 
Poems, 
2004–2010
, 
by 
Szilárd 
Borbély, 
translated 
by 
Ottilie 
Mulzet

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. From Final Matters, Sequences, Book One: Sequences of Holy Week
  6. From Final Matters, Sequences, Book Two: Sequences of Amor and Psyche
  7. From Final Matters, Sequences, Book Three: Hasidic Sequences
  8. From To the Body: Odes and Legends
  9. Notes
  10. Credits
  11. Translator’s Acknowledgments
  12. Translator’s Afterword

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