Creator Bio
Zoltán Somlyó
1882–1937
Born in Alsódomboru, Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Donja Dubrava, Croatia), Zoltán Somlyó was brought up in an impoverished home but attended a Hungarian-language secondary school and absorbed Hungarian culture. Standing in the European Decadent and bohemian tradition, his poetry engages themes of love and death, worldweariness, and loneliness. Writing poetry while working also as a journalist for a range of liberal and moderate conservative Hungarian newspapers and journals, he led a peripatetic life and struggled economically. He was the father of author György Somlyó.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Discussions with God
Going home on airless Elbow Street,
at three o’clock in the morning.
Lead me toward goodness, my God!
Peace-flowers bloom in these gray stones
and this dawn sky is peace.
Do You love me still, my…