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The Conscience of Trees: Selected Poems
A collection of poems by Romanian-Hungarian poet and novelist, Zoltán Böszörményi. This poetry is quite current in approach and content but also reflects that special Eastern European angst that has accumulated in the collective consciousness of the region over its turbulent history. However, the alternation between free verse and formal style is entirely due to the fact that Hungarian language allows for an infinite variety of rhyme pairs and any form of meter, and much of contemporary Hungarian poetry is still produced in conventional form. For this book the selected poems were grouped not by style but by theme; the first part containing meditative poems, the second part devoted to personal/lyrical poems, and the third to poems inspired by or dedicated to other poets and writers. Various styles and forms are represented in each cycle; only outstanding quality and significant content were considered for inclusion.
- GenresPoetry
140 pages, Paperback
Published September 7, 2018
About the author
Zoltán Böszörményi
33 books2 followersZoltan Biszormenyi is a Romanian-Hungarian poet, writer and editor.
His early poetic efforts were published in Napsugár, a children's magazine while he was still in school, but his career as a poet got started in Kolozsvár under the mentorship of poets Aladár Lászlóffy, Sándor Kányádi, Tibor Bálint és Sándor Fodor. His early poems and reports appeared on the pages of Ifjúmunkás, Előre, Korunk, Utunk, Művelődés, all Hungarian language publications in Romania. In Toronto he produced and broadcast a weekly one-hour Hungarian radio program. For two years he was a correspondent for CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation).
His first volume of poem, Örvényszárnyon, came out in 1979 and the second, Címjavaslatok, in 1981, both in Bucharest.
Presently he is the proprietor of Nyugati Jelen, a daily Hungarian paper published in Arad for the Hungarian minority population of five counties in Romania. In addition, he is the editor-in-chief of Irodalmi Jelen , an electronic and print literary review designed to connect Hungarian minorities in diaspora with Hungary. He is also the founder (2001) of a publishing house of the same name.
Since the turn of the century his poetry books have been coming out with increased frequency and he has expanded into prose as well, producing several novels and short story collections. His prose works have been translated into several languages, including English, French, German, Russian, Polish, and Romanian.
His literary activities were rewarded with József Attila Prize in 2012.
His early poetic efforts were published in Napsugár, a children's magazine while he was still in school, but his career as a poet got started in Kolozsvár under the mentorship of poets Aladár Lászlóffy, Sándor Kányádi, Tibor Bálint és Sándor Fodor. His early poems and reports appeared on the pages of Ifjúmunkás, Előre, Korunk, Utunk, Művelődés, all Hungarian language publications in Romania. In Toronto he produced and broadcast a weekly one-hour Hungarian radio program. For two years he was a correspondent for CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation).
His first volume of poem, Örvényszárnyon, came out in 1979 and the second, Címjavaslatok, in 1981, both in Bucharest.
Presently he is the proprietor of Nyugati Jelen, a daily Hungarian paper published in Arad for the Hungarian minority population of five counties in Romania. In addition, he is the editor-in-chief of Irodalmi Jelen , an electronic and print literary review designed to connect Hungarian minorities in diaspora with Hungary. He is also the founder (2001) of a publishing house of the same name.
Since the turn of the century his poetry books have been coming out with increased frequency and he has expanded into prose as well, producing several novels and short story collections. His prose works have been translated into several languages, including English, French, German, Russian, Polish, and Romanian.
His literary activities were rewarded with József Attila Prize in 2012.
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