Friday, 31 December 2010
Psalm by Éva Láng

From Holocaust Poems for our Time, Introduced & Translated from the Hungarian
by Thomas Ország-Land
(January 2011)

 

ÉVA LÁNG, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor (b. 1926), has unleashed a fury of verse of stunning beauty and intensity. Her relentless output is reminiscent of the chanting of the ancient prophets. The work breaks the embarrassed and almost complete silence that has been the response of the world’s poets to the organized, racist murder of six million Jews in the heart of Europe. And it has been largely ignored by literary editors.  more>>>

Posted on 12/31/2010 4:06 PM by NER
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