{"title":"Len Roberts","description":"\u003cp\u003eLen Roberts is the translator of two chapbooks and one previous full-length volume of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/collections\/sandor-csoori\" title=\"Sandor Csoori\"\u003eSándor Csoóri\u003c\/a\u003e’s poetry, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/collections\/translations\/products\/before-and-after-the-fall\" title=\"Before and After the Fall\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBefore and After the Fall\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (BOA Editions 2004), as well as the author of eight books of his own poetry. He has received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for his translation work. His fourth book, \u003cem\u003eBlack Wings,\u003c\/em\u003e was selected for the National Poetry Series. His poems and translations have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eAmerican Poetry Review, Poetry, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e The\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eParis Review\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"before-and-after-the-fall","title":"Before and After the Fall","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten between 1985 and 1994, these poems record what Sándor Csoóri has called \"the chronic memory of violence,\" namely the horrors of World War II and the repressions of the ensuing forty-five year Communist occupation. Several of the poems written after 1989, the year Communism collapsed in Hungary, cast a cold eye on the state of Hungary as a free nation. Sándor Csoóri, one of Hungary\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es most prominent and outspoken poets, is the author of sixteen books of poetry, six books of essays, two novels, and several film scripts. Translated with an Introduction by Len Roberts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAugust Evening\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSee, a hand sweeps stars\u003cbr\u003e         from the August sky,\u003cbr\u003eas if my mother swept off\u003cbr\u003ethe supper crumbs from the table at home.\u003cbr\u003eHer apron, slipping now and then, smells of parsley\u003cbr\u003e         and chives—\u003cbr\u003eThe sweet scent of her long-gone garden\u003cbr\u003e         sending me to sleep beside you tonight again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":9644791749,"sku":"9781929918461","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":8418131717,"sku":"9781929918478","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/files\/BeforeandAftertheFall.jpg?v=1784746557"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/Roberts__Len.jpg?v=1525880558","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/len-roberts.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}