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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Dávid Locker / Reflection Holds the Knife

 

Dávid Locker

Dávid Locker

Dávid Locker: Reflection Holds the Knife

"The stakes of Locker’s subjective poetry are without a doubt life itself: the experience, understanding, and operation of both ourselves and the world," from A Bay of Megaphones, a new bilingual anthology of young Hungarian poets, a poem by Dávid Locker in Austin Wagner's translation, introduced by Katalin Szlukovényi.


16th May, 2023

The stakes of Locker’s subjective poetry are without a doubt life itself: the experience, understanding, and operation of both ourselves and the world. The narrative momentum and colloquial familiarity of his free verse sweeps the reader along with a crushing force. ...