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Contents

It's a Mass

SO STRONG
Pointless Entirely
Guideline
So Strong
As Many Fruit Trees
You Are That I Am
A Molecule
The 10th Element
The Pulsing Stone
Justie
If I Say It
Should Be Obsessed
Always At This Time
Like a Date

SPLINTERS OF SUN
Among Holy Images and Icons
Splinters of Sun
Purgatory
#SOLARROADtoday
Kali-Yuga-Tango
Greek Drama I
Well of Mary
Myth and Reality
Csontváry
Pécs
Greek Drama II
Stations
Right to Make the Last Statement
Apocrypha
Temptation
Draft

APOCHRYPHA
Bruise From the Inside
Mercy
Not to Go Mad
On Alert
If We Break
Argentine Tango
What Does It Know
Geyser
Then We Scatter
Under the Margin
As the Power
The Face of God

THE SKY OVER OMSK
Changing of an Era
Of Two Words
The Sky over Omsk
Meeting a Pharisee
Deconstructio
Dichotomy
Thorns
It's Good to Write it Down, to Tell
Tell Me, What Does the Trojan Horse Bring In
Theology of Thirst
Vivisection
Zombi apocalypse

Quarantine

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Blurb

"If there is a lot of light, we close our eyes.
There is a lot of light. We can't turn a blind eye."

The settled rhyme poetry of Sándor Halmosi is getting more and more angular, splinters occur at the most unexpected places, or elsewhere, the pulsating body of the poem is breaking and cracking. It is enough for us to touch it, and we immediately sense our own "patchwork-life". This comes in handy when it hurts. There isn't a single poem in which we cannot find a vacancy that belongs to us, the readers. A sophisticated modern and near-spiritual sensation of the world, a distinct Halmosi-brand. Precise poetry, reliably measuring angelic density.

András Visky

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Sándor Halmosi (1971) is a Hungarian poet, literary translator, publisher and mathematician.

He lived in Germany from 1989 to 2006. He is the member of the European Academy of Science, Arts and Letters (Paris). His poems are translated into many languages. In early February 2020 he wrote a literary manifesto titled Ora et labora and, at the end of February, in seven days, Apocrypha.

His books in Hungarian language:

Showing off with the Demons (2001)
You were a Sun Girl, (2002)
Laurel Grove (2003)
It belongs to Solomon (2004)
On the Southern Slopes of Annapurna (2006)
Gilead (2009)
Ibrahim (2011)
The Passion of Lao-tse (2018)

Apocrypha (2020)
Meltdown (2021)

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