Dancing Embers

This collection brings together the poetry of Sandor Kanyadi, a writer born in a small village inhabited by ethnic Hungarians in Transylvania. Though he grew up and built his career in Romania, he has worked as a writer, translator and editor to preserve the Hungarian language and its culture in a climate that can be unwelcoming to them. Across the Carpathian Basin he has traveled widely, reading to audiences in schools and libraries in nearly every Hungarian town and village.

Kanyadi's verse moves between many forms and manners, and it frequently draws on folk songs and popular legend. His work has earned numerous literary prizes across Europe, among them the leading awards in Romania and Hungary. This volume is the first full-scope collection of his poems to appear in English, rendered by translator Paul Sohar.