Light within the Shade: Eight Hundred Years of Hungarian Poetry

Acknowledgments

xv Acknowledgments We are indebted to many people and institutions for their help in the preparation of this book. We would like to thank Dennis Kratz, Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas, for his encouragement and his support of our publication costs. We are grateful to Mimi and Mitch Barnett, who endowed Zsuzsanna Ozsváth’s Leah and Paul Lewis Chair of Holocaust Studies at UT Dallas, for their extraordinary help and interest in our work, and for the contribution of the Lewis chair to publication costs. The Founders of the University of Texas at Dallas deserve grateful memory for their ongoing support of the work of Frederick Turner. His Founders Chair also helped support publication costs. Our thanks are due to Miklós Vajda, who gave us essential advice that helped us bring this work to completion; to Eszter Dallos, who was an invaluable guide in our inquiries; and to Ivan and Mari Abonyi, for their hospitality in Hungary during our research into these poems. We also wish to express our deepest gratitude to Mei Lin Turner, without whose reading, feedback, care, and advice this manuscript would not have seen the light of day. Her work with the manuscript has been indispensable to the completion of this volume. Some of the translations in this collection have appeared in the following publications: Miklós Radnóti, Foamy Sky: The Major Poems of Miklós Radnóti, trans. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992). xvi | Acknowledgments The Colonnade of Teeth: Modern Hungarian Poetry, ed. George Gömöri and George Szirtes (Newcastle, UK: Bloodaxe Books, 1996). The Lost Rider: A Bilingual Anthology. The Corvina Book of Hungarian Verse (Budapest: Corvina Books, 1997). Attila József, The Iron-Blue Vault: Selected Poems, trans. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner (Newcastle, UK: Bloodaxe Books, 1999). Anna T. Szabó and Mónika Masterházi, Modern Classics from Hungary (Budapest: Hungarian Book Foundation, 2000). “End of September.” Sheet music lyrics with setting by Denes Agay (New York: Yorktown Music Press, 2003). Without Knocking. Catalog for an exhibit of paintings by Janet Brooks Gerloff based on the poems of Attila József, Hungarian Embassy, Berlin (February 25–March 18, 2005); Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (April 12–June 12, 2005); Museum Zinkhütter Hof, Aachen (September 26– November 25, 2005). The Hungarian Quarterly. Judaism. Poetry. Trinacria. The translators wish to express their gratitude to these publishers for their service to Hungarian poetry. ...