{"product_id":"9781552453278-magyarzni","title":"Magyarzni","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoems that traverse the boundaries between personal experience, familial bonds, and shared cultural identity.\u003cbr\u003eThe word \"magyarazni\" (pronounced MUG-yar-az-knee) means \"to explain\" in Hungarian, but translates literally as \"make it Hungarian.\" This faux-Hungarian language primer, written in direct address, invites readers to experience what it's like to be \"made Hungarian\" by growing up with a parent who immigrated to North America as a refugee. In forty-five folk-art visual poems each paired with a written poem, Hajnoczky reveals the beauty and tension of first-generation cultural identity. 'Because translation between cultures is always fraught - and yet somehow translate we must - Magyarazni explores language and cultural identity in the permeable space fomenting between family and society, word and image initiating us into a new alphabet of lived meaning. In reading we wonder along with Magyarazni's wandering \"you,\" we care and get entangled in the \"brambles of your cursive,\" we too are \"made Hungarian.\"'  - Oana Avasilichioaei 'Familiar but out of reach, Magyarazni reforms the language of home on the tip of your tongue, a language of knotted cursive and bubbled syntax; folksong and stovetop. Each letter blossoms as a hand-drawn flower and a sputtering drone of spits and pith.Magyarazni punctuates every I with a poppy seed, every C with the splinter-ed foil of a solemn treat. Mournful and personal, Magyarazni calls out for the language of family.'  - Derek Beaulieu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55422024384886,"sku":"9781552453278","price":15.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_33583975.jpg?v=1748560465","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781552453278-magyarzni","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}