{"product_id":"budapest-to-babel-book-vahni-capildeo-9780954392062","title":"Budapest to Babel","description":"Winner of the inaugural Jane Martin Prize for Poetry.  ...and I watch the oxidised stations go by slowly dozing to the sound of the fine talk in a cradle of soft sentences...through the window I spot two storks over the lake, two forgotten orthographic signs I could not read anymore written in the reeds wings open...and I notice another one and two or three more; the entire country covered with copper-beaked white storks.  The well-known Babel myth provides the backbone for the first cycle of poems and a departure point for further journeys in this, Lehoczky's first book in English. Budapest to Babel is a rewarding and focussed exploration of the difficulties and joys of encountering and engaging fully with a new language. States of confusion and chaos, playfulness and joy are all explored throughout this lively and rewarding debut.  Agnes Lehoczky was born in 1976 in Budapest. Station X (2000) and Medalion (2002), her first two short collections, were published in Budapest by Universitas. Her work has been published in a number of places in print and online in Hungary and the UK.  \"It is rare to find such articulate poems about inarticulacy; poems that comprehend inarticulacy in their composition and which are, for my money, very moving … an original writer with something original to say.\" — George Szirtes  \"Agnes Lehoczky draws on the poetic tradition of making language the subject of the image but complicates this intriguingly by being in two places at once; she makes herself both actor and acted upon in enjoyable strategies of investment and displacement.\" — Lavinia Greenlaw","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49596259795217,"sku":"GOR009465787","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/095439206X.jpg?v=1751363818","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/budapest-to-babel-book-vahni-capildeo-9780954392062","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}