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The Selected Lyric Poetry of U. G. Világos finally collects portions of his lyrical works. The collection is bold and vibrant, as if written in blood, with a lifetime of strong feeling punched into every poem. A work of genius. A launchpad into a brave new world of literature. A book that defies both time and death, and makes poetry feel possible again. Világos' great gift has always been the ability to connect deeply to a sense of humanity without giving in to sentimentality. The poems in this book will resonate with anyone who has ever felt abandoned by the world. Világos is, indeed, immortal. This book proves it.

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Vilagos is an acute and brilliant poet, writing on being done wrong by the fiction of time and the system of the city. His is the poetry of the city that looks out into the night, time's winged sparrow, and notes the sky, knowing that there are few takers, but wanting the praise anyway. It is a manifesto for the protest poetry of the future, a classic in the tradition of Allen Ginsberg's Howl. - Lizzie Violin, Lost Form Murders Even in its war, or rather war of rhetoric and art, it creates room for the imagination, for the bodily act of constructing meaning. Vilagos has given us a collection of the temporal equivalent of large-scale physical protests, full of auspicia mundi and humus hile signs. 'We shall be citizens of the real, we shall not die in vain.' In the chaos of rebellion, new things will be born and the old, the patterned, will be left to die. - Nicolette Grenadine, Sunday This book is not only monumental, but also endlessly entertaining. It is organized by theme, and within each theme, not always by characters, but by subjects. The process of building these themes has been so complex and strange that it seems as though the true theme of the book is what Vilagos himself has called 'the graphic process'. - Ricky Cole, How to Die in Paris For what is time, but the river in which everything that could not be has to flow through?' These are the most arresting lines in Vilagos' work. They are not just elegantly weird; they are a phenomenological ontology of the formative, disjunctive period of one's life. At the centre of the book is an interrogation of time in flux; of arrival and departure, reflection and dispersion, dreams and text, planning and co-creation. These are shifts in the distance between past, present and future. They are recognisable reflections of the changing geography of life. It is often said that literature is ultimately about a search for home. Vilagos is, perhaps, our most interesting and definitive answer to that search. - Matthew Mitero, City of Geist wretched writing from a wretched writer. - Robert Loyal, Stripes A startling, passionate, funny, heart-breaking work... liturgical and brilliantly powerful... by a writer at the height of his powers, Vilagos deserves a wide audience. - L. F. Dion, The Telegram Grief and love are so fascinating that they can raise even the most self-centred writer to new heights. - Emma E. Hirsch, The Sunday Morning Herald A majestic, exhilarating book filled with poetry, wit, prose and art... [and] a testimony to Vilagos' gift for evoking and making human a wide range of experiences... [a]noble and courageous work. - Jean-Louis Monet, Le Monet

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U. G. Világos is a poet, editor and teacher. His new collection, The Mostly Fictitious Man, is forthcoming in Summer 2023, and a collection of flash-poems titled Troubles, Nights, Meditations & Memoranda for a Passing Smile is forthcoming in 2024. He is the editor of We Still Use Poetry: The 2nd Quarterly Anthology of Contemporary Poetry in the Margins. He sometimes writes as Discovery Jones. As Jones he has published the poetry chapbook How to Survive a Shark Attack and the novels Possession, 1972 and The Last Tracer.

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