(DOWNLOAD) "My Hungarian Vista: Baltazar, Kovacs, Radnoti (Andras Baltazar, Andras Kovacs, & Miklos Radnoti)" by William Sommers * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: My Hungarian Vista: Baltazar, Kovacs, Radnoti (Andras Baltazar, Andras Kovacs, & Miklos Radnoti)
- Author : William Sommers
- Release Date : January 12, 2010
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
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Editor's Note: Great poets and their poetry inspire, provoke, comfort, unify and bring tears and laughter generation after generation. In Hungary great poets are revered, perhaps none more so than Miklos Radnoti. In this evocative memoir Bill Sommers describes how poetry and the memory of Radnoti helped to rekindle a friendship with a former Hungarian colleague, bridging a gap of 16 years. His connection to Hungary and two old friends and to Radnoti and his poetry have become a permanent part of his life. -Assoc. Ed. During the 2009 holidays I sent a greeting card--along with a short poem--to an old friend - Andras Baltazar--in Budapest with whom I worked on local environmental projects in Hungary in the early 90s. I wasn't sure that his e-mail was still the one I had in my address book. My wife and I lived in Krakow, Poland where I was assigned to a local environmental project that focused on a group of five cities in Poland and two in Hungary. I visited the Hungarian projects monthly to assess progress and to pay consultant and office costs. Andras saw to the day-to-day operations and kept our "book" on project outlay and progress. When I left in 1995, we kept in touch via sporadic e-mails. By the time I rolled up my career in 2003, we had pretty much lost our connection. Still, I wanted to try one more time.