Hualing’s Garden in Iowa

Ágnes Gergely

1993

Wind bells over the river with an

Indian name: transplanted homelessness

disguised as a transplanted home.

The garden jingles. Odorous sandalwood censers,

kimonos and saris flashing well among

the trees cornered and rooted here, like

the ever alert deer antlers on the bank—

each particle of the sight is terror.

To reconstruct: to step barefooted…

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Ágnes Gergely

b. 1933

Hungarian-born, Holocaust survivor Ágnes Gergely is a poet, fiction writer, editor, and translator, as well as a teacher and a radio producer. In 1973, she participated in the University of Iowa International Writing Program. She has earned Hungarian literary awards, including the Attila József Prize, the Dery and Milan Prizes, and her country’s top literary honor, the Kossuth Prize.

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