Award-winning translator Peter Hargitai celebrates 100 years of Attila József (1905–1937) in this new selection of 100 poems. His previous selection, Perched On Nothing’s Branch (1986), enjoyed a remarkable run of five editions and won for him the Academy of American Poets’ Landon Translation Award. His translation of Attila József is listed among the world classics cited by Harold Bloom in The Western Canon.

Attila József (1905–1937) A towering, tragic poet in modern 20th Century world literature. An orphan and a social outcast whose innovative raw imagery captured the plight of suffering humanity during his chaotic age. He ended his life by throwing himself under the wheels of a freight train. Benedetto Croce called him, “One of the greatest poets of the poor and of humanity.”