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Contents

The Lord's table

PEOPLE LOVE IT
Prior
In Search of a Good Person
People Love It
Letting Go
It is All the Matter of Inches
But What About
The Minor Infinite
That Battle
Phat
Stack
Founders
U-Turn
Swelling
Drama
They Say
The First Hermits

NERETVA
I Do Not Say
That Frame
Neretva
After So Many Years
This Space
Milgram
Seventeen
A Letter, Not a Verse
Obsculta
Crane watching
Less and less
You Break In, You Break
You Are Close
Dry Riverbed
Until It Gets Heavy
Even the Tone of Voices
Withrawal

AGAPE
Under
If You Stand Out
Agape
We Couldn't
The Gospel of John
Loved It So Much
Blunt
Skull Mountain
Meltdown
It Could Be Different
We Take No Prisoners
Not The Existence
The Face
Tonsure
Anthrax
Harrowing of Hell

THE INNER ESKIMO
A Poem is Also
Runs Dry
The Inner Eskimo
The Unknown
As the End of the Arts
Nothing
Silent Prayer After Midnight
Where It Bursts
Vale Of Tears
In Vain
Encouraging
Unhog-tie Yourself
As It is Peeling Off
The 10th Verse
17 Shamans, at the Front of the Line
Like the Messiah

As a kövidinka grape

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Blurb

The light of the Apocripha "expires" in these verses, apocalyptic dehydration, exhaustion dominates the spiritual landscape, the dark night of the soul, where "weakness is the new force" and "everything dawns on our own image". The nature of guest words and allusions creates insoluble contradictions in this razor-sharp critical poetry. There is still some humor, self-irony behind all the pruning and tearing, the masculine fire that is still light, despite being consuming, the so-called works, unfolding from the fiction generating self-constructions with a fictional community on mind, transforming them into such a flame that will eventually devour them. ("Where there are three of us gathered in my name,/ there are many of us. Many hungry mouths.") This cleansing stream of flames licking up inner and outer spaces is the Meltdown.

Enikő Sepsi

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Sándor Halmosi (1971) is a Hungarian poet, translator, publisher. 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. Meltdown is the author's tenth volume as the second piece of an (apocryphal) trilogy: Apocrypha was published first in 2020 at Gondolat publishing house, and the trilogy will be closed by the Cathars.

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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