Dancing Embers

Poetry. Sandor Kanyadi is from a small ethnic Hungarian village in Transylvania. He has lived his life in Romania where through his work as writer, translator, and editor he has endeavored to keep his language and culture alive amidst an often hostile environment. There is probably no Hungarian town or village of any size in the whole Carpathian Basin that Kanyadi has not visited to recite in schools and libraries. Like all great poets, his work encompasses many styles and forms, often incorporating elements of folk songs and popular myth. A recipient of many literature awards in Europe, including the top prizes in both Romania and Hungary, this is the first comprehensive volume of his poetry to be published in English. Translated by Paul Sohar.

Reading Kanyadi in Translation	p. 11
A Poem is Something You Have to Tell	p. 17
Vertical Horses	p. 19
Smoke	p. 21
On That Evening	p. 22
Spring Ballad	p. 23
Gypsy Sprite	p. 24
A Sonnet to the Gypsy Girl	p. 25
Pondering Stands the Man	p. 26
At the End	p. 27
One Single Reed	p. 28
The Stray Dog	p. 29
Wartime	p. 30
Dancing Embers	p. 32
Agamemnon the Alcoholic	p. 33
The Mute	p. 34
Copy	p. 36
Vertical Horses	p. 37
And Yet	p. 38
Fall	p. 39
Numbed Nightmare	p. 40
Objects	p. 41
Horses	p. 42
From Tree to Tree	p. 43
Black-and-Red Verses	p. 47
Caged In	p. 49
Ballad	p. 50
Winter Landscape from the Train	p. 51
Panta Rhei	p. 52
Rain	p. 53
Black-and-Red	p. 54
Epigrams in Memory of Janus Pannonius	p. 58
I Wonder	p. 59
Almost Gray Songs	p. 60
How Much Longer	p. 61
On My Deathbed	p. 62
All Night Long in Front	p. 63
By Their Names	p. 66
Ostinato	p. 67
Left Behind Again	p. 68
An Exchange of Words	p. 69
Furtive Thoughts	p. 70
I've Seen Enough	p. 71
Scarecrowweathercock	p. 72
The Gypsy Caravan	p. 74
Work Song	p. 75
Sumerian Sonnet	p. 76
The Rope	p. 77
Fall Flower	p. 78
Prometheus	p. 79
The Tree	p. 80
Unvaried Variation	p. 81
The Dead Dolphin	p. 82
Seniors	p. 84
Continuity	p. 85
Into Noah's Ark	p. 86
Nomads	p. 87
Poems about Poetry	p. 89
A Note on the Margin with a Footnote	p. 91
From the Unrecorded Service Regulations of Poetry	p. 92
Should Be Abolished	p. 93
Still Going Strong	p. 94
From the Diary of a Pilgrim	p. 95
Counterpoem	p. 96
All Souls' Day in Vienna	p. 97
Unadorned Songs	p. 115
Situation Song	p. 117
The Lucky One	p. 118
The Artist	p. 119
Unadorned Song	p. 120
Fingernail Verses	p. 122
Postcards from Dachau	p. 124
Space-Crossing Gate	p. 127
I Confess	p. 129
To My Friend Karoly Kiraly	p. 130
Power	p. 132
Adjustment	p. 133
History Lesson	p. 134
If He Had an Inkling	p. 135
Privilege	p. 136
Shadowplay	p. 137
(True) Tale about the Typewriter	p. 138
Screwed-up Rondeau	p. 139
Three Thoughts	p. 140
Subjugated: From the Book of the Preacher	p. 141
Space-Crossing Gate	p. 142
An Old Man's Last Supplication	p. 143
Mass-Grave Song	p. 144
Freedom of Assembly with Parentheses	p. 145
Barracks Ballad	p. 146
Ballad Ad Notam Villon I.	p. 147
Vae Victis	p. 149
Mane and Skull	p. 150
There are Regions	p. 151
Prologue	p. 153
A Plunging Walnut Leaf	p. 154
Native Indian Song	p. 155
After-Midnight Language	p. 156
Engraving	p. 157
Armenian Tombstones	p. 158
He Punishes Those He Loves	p. 159
Rondeau	p. 160
Late Poems	p. 161
Brief Invocation	p. 163
Ballad Ad Notam Villon II	p. 164
Unexpected Yellow	p. 165
The Dogs of Grozny	p. 166
Spaceshield	p. 167
The Way ...	p. 168
Gas Age	p. 170
Songs of Alarm	p. 172
Epilogue	p. 173
And Then	p. 174
Someone Roams above the Trees	p. 175
Translator's Note	p. 176
About the Author / About the Translator	p. 181
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