“Mourning Verse, on the Death of Lajos Szuromi” was written in two separate versions by Szilárd Borbély in 2010. The second version, presented here, was read at the funeral of Prof. Szuromi, who had been an important mentor to Borbély, and who, like him, had grown up in deeply impoverished circumstances. Borbély’s investigations of the transience of materiality evoke memory’s waywardness, the ungraspability of the mourned subject.
Ottilie Mulzet on "3.1 Mourning Verse, on the Death of Lajos Szuromi" |
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2022 Lammy Awards Announced
This year, Lambda Literary honored four poets with Lammy Awards: Tamiko Beyer for the collection, Last Days, John Keene for Punks: New and Selected Poems, Aurielle Marie for Gumbo Ya Ya, and Mason J. for Crossbones on My Life. In addition, poet and activist Ching-In Chen won the Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers.
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What Sparks Poetry:
Sarah Audsley on Suji Kwock Kim's Notes from the Divided Country
"It was 2011, at The Frost Place Conference on Poetry after Vievee Francis’s talk. Afterward, when I became a bit emotional—her talk opened me up; the best talks do; I cried—she looked at me and told me to read Suji Kwock Kim, to search out and to read poetry by Korean/Korean American poets. As an adoptee, born in South Korea and raised in rural Vermont, this was a decisive moment for me." |
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