Danielle Mckinney, Mercy (detail), featured in AGNI 103
I Have to Look Long
Translated from the Hungarian by Len Roberts and Gabor Toro
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Sándor Csoóri
Sándor Csoóri is one of Hungary’s foremost poets and essayists. (updated 1992)
Len Roberts
Len Roberts (1947–2007) was a poet as well as a frequent translator of the work of Hungarian poet Sándor Csoóri. Roberts published ten collections of poetry during his lifetime, including The Trouble-Making Finch (University of Illinois Press, 1998) and The Silent Singer: New and Selected Poems (Illinois, 2001).
Gabor Toro
Gabor Toro is a graduate of the English/Hungarian department of Janus Pannonius University in Pecs, Hungary. He works for a leading Budapest newspaper. (updated 1991)
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