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The Conscience Of Trees - Böszörményi Zoltán

Perceptive, cultivated and inventive are terms that aptly apply to Zoltán Böszörményi’s The Conscience of Trees. This remarkable volume of poetry is a transport for the reader, a journey across our planet filtered through the sieve of the poet’s imagination: „I speak of this need with which I live / while the wispy sunrise silently / pours a new dream through the sieve. ” Complexity and variety course through the erudite arteries of this book. Poems flow effortlessly from the personal to the universal, then back again with the ease characteristic of a mature poet. As one expects from such sophistication, the blending of the two is often seamless: „Time’s white canvas is fluttering above me, / and in the neighboring room / the radio keeps blaring . . . „ and „I”m taking a walk along the Arno, / the facades of Florentine houses are reflected in the water, / like a collage of photographs / they bend in the softly ru ed mirror, / paying no attention to me. The river keeps crawling. ” Böszörményi’s imagination is an active culture that produces some exceptional poetry. I invite you to enjoy the journey. (Mary O'Donnell) ..

Böszörményi Zoltán IDEGENNYELVŰ ANGOL Xante Librarium Kft.