Creator Bio
István Vas
1910–1991
Hungarian-born István Vas was a poet and translator of such writers as Shakespeare, Schiller, and Defoe. Vas received the Kossuth Prize for translations and original writings in 1962 and the Attila József Prize for translation in 1951.
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Once More
You’re so brave, you camp-followers of Cain—
after Baudelaire, yet! Shit-shoveling first father,
your visa was validated
when that cretinous cudgel whammed the wandering
flock’s shepherd, that day…