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. ...