{"product_id":"eternal-monday-new-selected-poems-9781852245047","title":"Eternal Monday: New \u0026 Selected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGyörgy Petri (1943-2000) belonged to the generation of Hungarian poets who grew up after the uprising of 1956. He made his name in the West as the most uncompromising and outrageous of his country’s dissident authors. At home he was as often praised for his strangely disquieting love poetry, which is harsh, erotic and disenchanted. But all his poems are marked by his biting humour and bluntness of language. After the fall of Communism, Petri’s wit and his natural anarchism were aimed at a wider range of public targets, yet his new poems also seem more private. Many are intellectual puzzles, sceptical about identity and the sureness of emotional attachments. The poetry written by Petri before the collapse of Hungary’s Communist régime was published by Bloodaxe in 1991 in Night Song of the Personal Shadow: Selected Poems, also translated by George Gömöri and Clive Wilmer. Eternal Monday was a new selection, mostly written since 1989, and was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePetri is a lyrical poet who has deliberately gone sour… His love poems are his finest work: sad, dry-eyed, even cruel, but spiced with a bitter tenderness…He is the voice of his generation. To understand him is to understand the declining years of European Communism and to sharpen our eyes for intimate half-truths of our own. -- George Szirtes * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eIt is a long time since a major verse satirist has emerged in any European language. That is what Petri is, and he combines an almost Juvenalian savagery with a striking range of techniques and genres. His bile is the product of injustice and moral outrage. He is funny, angry, sexy, morbid, disillusioned and wildly intelligent. -- Clive Wilmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9 Foreword by Elaine Feinstein  12 Introduction by Clive Wilmer  I.  To 1974  20 Collapse  21 You Are Knackered, My Catullus  22 By an Unknown Poet from Eastern Europe, 1955  24 To a Virtuous Lady  25 I Am Stuck, Lord, on Your Hook  26 News Bulletin  27 Stairs  28 To S.V.  30 From the Songs of the Doleful Lover  31 Now Only  32 Gratitude  II.  1974 – 1989  34 Eternal Monday  37 Gloss on a Discussion  38 It Would Be Nice to Translate Mallarmé  39 Tick-Tock  40 The Fading Consciousness of Casanova  42 Apocryphal  43 To Be Said Over and Over Again  43 S.K.  44 The Under-Secretary Makes a Statement  46 Night Song of the Personal Shadow  47 Sweetness  48 Me  49 Horatian  50 Sometimes the Sun Comes Out  51 Black Christmas  52 In Memoriam: Péter Hajnóczy  56 Christmas 1956  58 Christmas of ’65  60 Rhapsody  61 The Walk  62 Revenge  63 Electra  64 To Imre Nagy  III.  Since 1989  66 Cemetery Plot No. 301  67 Cold Peace  68 Morning Coffee  69 Sisyphus Steps Back  70 Daydreams  71 Smiley’s Christmas  72 Something Unknown  73 Elegy (‘When you are out…’)   74 Ideas and Dance-Music Records  76 Self-Portrait 1990  77 Epitaph  78 Credit Card  79 Mud  80 Options  81 Our Loves  82 Nonono  83 Only Mari’s Remained  84 Bosnia  85 The Nothing Going On  86 Pop Song  87 from The Great Journey  90 A Recognition   93 Notes","brand":"Bloodaxe Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771647066455,"sku":"9781852245047","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781852245047.jpg?v=1758728633","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/eternal-monday-new-selected-poems-9781852245047","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}