Always Different

Poems of Memory

By: Gyula Jenei, Diana Senechal (Translator)

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Paperback | 12 April 2022

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This collection of poetry from Hungarian master Gyula Jenei, peers into nostalgia and its uncertainties, grappling with histories and temporalities that are unrecognizable or gone.

The poems in Jenei's collection Always Different: Poems of Memory grapple with childhood, memory, and time. The poet looks back forty years and imagines himself as a boy--the narrator of the poems--looking forward into the future. Thus the poems combine moments with sweeps of time, village scenes with rumblings of societal and technological change. In the tradition of Hungarian writers Tamas Nadas and Agota Kristof, Jenei grapples with war and destruction, loneliness, desire, and loss. The literary historian Eva Banki calls Jenei "one of the great masters of Hungarian free verse"--adding that his poems also hold an epic theme, "the strange underworld of the Kadar era, rural Hungary shown through a child's eye." Through their storytelling, searching, and rhythms, these poems take us into our communal yet private longing for self-knowledge, history, and home.

Industry Reviews

"One of the great masters of Hungarian free verse." -Eva Banki

"What are we looking for in our childhood when we take stock of such and such events, sins, tragedies?... A silent poet whose every word I hear." -Laszlo Darvasi

"Real lyrical ingenuity." -Ferenc Simon

"One afternoon I read through Gyula Jenei's Always Different, more than a hundred pages of poetry, and after the first poems I said to myself that yes, this is my world." -Vince Fekete

"The culmination of a lyrical material with a rich past." -Adam Sebestyen

"One of the most striking registers of Hungarian poetry of the 2000s... So naturally embraces the pulse of the Hungarian language that every memory that is expressed in them thus suddenly emerges from insignificant mundaneness and finds itself confronted with eternity." -Balazs Fuzfa

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