Pulzus. [Pulse.] Illustrations by Annabella Orosz. Prae Publishers – Lector Publishers, Budapest – Târgu Mureș, 2023.

Category: poetry
Pages: 140
Cover: paperback
ISBN: 978-606-8957-44-9

Noémi László (born 1973, Cluj, Romania) is a poet, translator, and editor of two children’s literary magazines, Napsugár and Szivárvány. In 2010, she received the József Attila Literary Award. She authored the following books of poetry: Nonó, 1995; Az ébredés előterében, 1996; Esés után, 2000; Százegy, 2004; Papírhajó, 2009; Labdarózsa, 2010; Feketeleves, 2010; Afrika, 2011; Föld, 2013; Bodzabél, 2017; Műrepülés, 2020; Darázsolás, 2022; and a collection of tales, Keljfeljancsi, 2023.

Every volume of poetry is an invitation to travel, but some invite us on many different journeys. Noémi László’s Pulse is a collection of poems that are each connected to a particular city, region, or street. Whether set in Transylvania, Hungary, or around the world, they all reveal and make personal the spaces they inhabit for the reader. The poems, however, also travel widely in time, evoking ancient mthologies and making them present-day, while effortlessly and naturally engaging with constant change. Pulse is undoubtedly a reckoning with the poet’s life’s work to date, and thus first and foremost asks how she once related to existence and how she relates to it now.