INVENTING BEING KITALÁLT LÉT

About the Book

(IN)VENTING BEING

"In the beginning was the Word is Ferenc Mózsi's poetic credo. For him a poem's real drama is its birth. The poem writes itself. Inventing Being, inspired by creative imagery, word combinations and plays, bears witness to the richness of the Hungarian language and its poetic power to nourish the human spirits."

PÉTER KASLIK

"As always, the poems of Ferenc Mózsi are rich and resonating chips of love and pain. They flare like nimble suns within the restless shadows of our lives, then glow across the gray uncertainty we share, each a small gathering of light and heat to kindle love among the pain He is a master of the sinews of the heart, a warrior against the hungry night that so insatiably tries to ingest us all."

JUD BLAKELY

"In this collection of poems Mózsi snatches special moments and makes them into monuments, rediscovering the existing beauty in ourselves and in the world around us."

JÓZSEF GARAI
Former Editor, Hungarian Word

"As a writer who is at home in both Hungarian and English, I'm aware of the challenges facing a translator to bring a poem home. But that is only the start. Award-winning translator Peter Hargitai makes these poems sing!"

THOMAS P. MUHL
Author of Retouching Stalin's Moustache

About the Author

Ferenc Mózsi is the author of fourteen volumes of poetry. Born in Budapest, he escaped the Communist regime in Hungary in 1970 in a daring escape, the last stretch of which included a marathon swim to Italy. For a time the poet lived in Belgium, pursuing studies in philology at the Catholic University of Louvain. In 1974 he moved to the United States where he became founder and editor of the Hungarian literary, artistic and critical review Szivárvány. At the 1984 World Congress of Poetry in Marrakech, Morocco, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Poetry. He and his family live in Chicago.