Consciousness

Stefánia Mándy

1944

our lightless awful days are passing
splinters of memories prick our brains
daily our Creator beats us using both hands
we are his dry weeds husked to the core
for us fire is no fire for us it is death
the earth for us is no earth it is hell
not for us green gardens our hearts about to stop
I can see my brother a silent statue
slow decay with…
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Stefánia Mándy

1918–2001

Poet and art historian Stefánia Mándy was born in Budapest, where she studied humanities at the university. In 1944, she was deported to Auschwitz; her experiences there influenced the nature of her poetry, much of which was not allowed to be published during the communist regime in Hungary. After the war, Mándy taught at Pázmány Péter University. She received the Jószef Attila prize for poetry in 2001.

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