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Organized by the Liszt Institute New York a Literary Meet & Greet and Book Launch will take place with Hungarian writer Gábor G. Gyukics on August 28 from 6:30PM at the Hungarian House of New York.
Gábor G. Gyukics will be launching his new volume titled Detoxification of the Body and will be in conversation with American writer, poet and member of the literary collective The Unbearables, Thad Rutkowski.
The event will be conducted in English.
About the author
Gabor G. Gyukics is a Hungarian American poet and literary translator. He is known for translating American poetry to Hungarian and Hungarian poetry to English. Gabor G. Gyukics is a member of the Szépírók Társasága – Hungarian Society of Writers, Critics and Literary Translators.
Gyukics was the founder of a series of open poetry readings combined with jazz in Hungary starting in1999. His current work focuses on translations of Native American poetry and American poetry.
Reviews of the book
“Before our present circumstance was looming gabor g. gyukics... detoxification of the body maintains a lingual balance remaining primed and capable, within our partial seasons as it continues to script his recognition of our “ennui” seemingly akin to the Georgics yet within our warped existential conundrum."
––Will Alexander, poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and visual artist, author of Refractive Africa; finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and winner of the California Book Award in Poetry 2022
“gyukics spins and unspins words. These poems are full of play and humor anchored by just enough ache and ring. In this work we dance the moment, understand the history, honor the old stories but know that they do not rule us, and feel the “Impossibilism” that Gyukics paints for us."
––Kim Shuck, 7th Poet Laureate Emerita of San Francisco
“gyukics considers three word-filled globes floating over his head, he captures them, ties them to his worktable, and using the golden needle that Hugo Ball gave him, he pierces them one by one to release clouds of words. Once they have settled there, he strokes them, thanks them, and hands them to us. They taste good, cherry soup or goulash in the cosmic cold.”
––Andrei Codrescu poet, novelist, and essayist, NPR commentator and winner of the Peabody Award, editor of Exquisite Corpse, McCurdy Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Louisiana State University
“gabor g gyukics’ conceptual poetry, which employs outstanding compression, effortlessly creates and explores connections between incredibly distant and microscopically close subjects, is often compared to North American Indian, Far Eastern, and Hermetic poetry.”
––Jiri Machanek, publisher of Protimluv Press, Czech Republic
"The structure of gyukics’ free verse is reminiscent of Ezra Pound’s Vorticism, which ascribes a very special status to the poetic image. According to this view, the ‘image’ is essentially a singular moment when ‘something external and objective is transformed into something internal and subjective.’ These haiku-like image-moments cast ordinary objects, things, and events in a strange light, depriving them of their familiarity."
––Orsolya Rákai, literary scholar
About Thad Rutkowski
Thad Rutkowski currently teaches at Medgar Evers College. He is a member the literary collective The Unbearables. He is also a former member of the editorial board of Many Mountains Moving, a literary journal.
Rutkowski is the author of three novels. The first, Roughhouse: A Novel in Snapshots was released by Kaya Press in 1999, the second, Tetched: A Novel in Fractals, was released by Behler Publications in 2005, and the third, Haywire, was released by Starcherone Books in 2010. He also wrote Violent Outbursts, a collection of flash fiction (Spuyten Duvil 2015), of which John Amen writing in the Los Angeles Review said, "Rutkowski mines the confessional approach, everyday occurrences, and the fantastical, displaying thematic and stylistic range, with most of the pieces in this collection totaling less than five hundred words in length....". Jim Bourey writing in the Broadkill Review said ...." Haywire is a Thaddeus Rutkowski marvel and each short chapter is a wild ride that carries us through the life of a Polish-American/Chinese man."
In 2017, he was named a panelist by the New York Foundation for the Arts on the committee to select the foundation's non-fiction literature awardees.
In 2020 he published a new collection of poetry, "Tricks of Light". John Brantingham writing on the volume in Cultural Weekly remarked that '...he captures the universal sense of alienation that seems to be a part of human existence especially in this new age of COVID".
He is a one-time winner of the Friday-night Nuyorican Poets Cafe Poetry Slam. His work has appeared in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, the International Herald Tribune, Potomac Review, the Opinionator blog feature of the New York Times, Iron Horse Review, and Hayden's Ferry Review.