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A summing up of a poetic career that scans
decades and continents. The first poems are timeless stories,
school days and birthdays. Further on, the enchor of history
appears, with reflections on many events in Eastern Europe
Auschwitz, German culture, Stalin's death and Pasternak's.
Dense with thickets of meaning, these are not poems to be
casually scanned, but to be savoured and appreciated.
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I quite like these poems, in spite of the fact that most of
the allusions are lost on me. Some of the imagery is very striking, and is
also reminiscent of Dylan Thomas — as in Attila Joseph, where
hearing the organ grinder's tune
from resting places of mourning
I dream in the hoodwink hour
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Envoi.
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I am undecided about ON THE EVE — possibly because many of
the allusions are lost on me. What is striking, however, as a first
impression when glancing through the book, is the strange imagery — some of
which is rather reminiscent of Dylan Thomas, as in Cape Anne where
The sun glances near me
rising on gold waves
the green gale winds
beckon the birds
out on the hot housed noon.
or, in Lines from Warsaw, which begins
I, the wind wound
upon toothless trees
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Ore.
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