Fülszöveg
Nicholas Kolumban grew up in Budapest, Hungary and came to the U. S. after the devastating revolution of 1956 against Soviet domination, He is the author of eleven books of poems, five of them translations. He teaches English in a community coUege in New Jersey.
What they say about his work: THE SCIENCE OF IN-BETWEEN
Nicholas Kolumban is an exquisite courier from the Hungarian to English, conveying through his translations what is so vibrant in the original - the specialness of language as well as subject matter that makes a poem a poem.
Daniel Bourne
SURGERY ON MY SOUL
The book breathes a holy candor, and it's sensual, broad-ranging and attentive.
Karen Kovacik, Artful Dodge
PORCELAIN BALLOON
The poems of Nicholas Kolumban hold a luminous simplicity and strength of feeling. In them there is a striking integrity, unity of emotion and feeling.
Paula Fox
RECEPTION AT THE MONGOLIAN EMBASSY Kolumban's experience is so much like mine; it was like reading my own life. Moving,...
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Fülszöveg
Nicholas Kolumban grew up in Budapest, Hungary and came to the U. S. after the devastating revolution of 1956 against Soviet domination, He is the author of eleven books of poems, five of them translations. He teaches English in a community coUege in New Jersey.
What they say about his work: THE SCIENCE OF IN-BETWEEN
Nicholas Kolumban is an exquisite courier from the Hungarian to English, conveying through his translations what is so vibrant in the original - the specialness of language as well as subject matter that makes a poem a poem.
Daniel Bourne
SURGERY ON MY SOUL
The book breathes a holy candor, and it's sensual, broad-ranging and attentive.
Karen Kovacik, Artful Dodge
PORCELAIN BALLOON
The poems of Nicholas Kolumban hold a luminous simplicity and strength of feeling. In them there is a striking integrity, unity of emotion and feeling.
Paula Fox
RECEPTION AT THE MONGOLIAN EMBASSY Kolumban's experience is so much like mine; it was like reading my own life. Moving, beautiful poems.
Charles Simic
The book is rueful, lyrical, witty. Kolumban catches the darker side of the immigrant experience.
Judith Berke
TURMOIL IN HUNGARY
This is a remarkable anthology! It leaves us in awe of the strength of the human poetic spirit.
Bloomsbury Review
His last book:
FLARES ON WATER - poems in EngUsh and Hungarian, 2001
Vissza