Approaching My Literature, Volume 1

Peter Hargitai is a Senior Lecturer in English at Florida International University. He has been teaching Writing, Rhetoric and Literature for four decades. As a poet, author and translator, he has garnered numerous literary awards including the Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Füst Milán Award from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the Pro Cultura Hungarica Medal from the Republic of Hungary. He is a member of PEN (Writers in Exile).

Peter Hargitai is a remarkably versatile and humanely touching poet with a truly distinctive style and voice. These deeply probing intellectual poems exhibit an impressive range and vivacity of genres." —Laurence Lieberman, Poetry Editor, University of Illinois Press"Hargitai's prose reads like lightning; it is swift, sure and irresistible. He has calculated this effect carefully through the use of clipped, angular dialogue, stripped-down plot, and narrative rich in disturbing images." —Bruce Thomas Boehrer, Florida State University"The unique brand of rebellious neo-confessionalism turns language inside out with its wit and self-irony." —Adam Makkai, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois"Few can convey the impact of the tragic East European destinies in the madness of the new World with such absurd dexterity as Peter Hargitai." —Clara Gyorgyey, Yale University"Peter Hargitai has written a brave and important and timely account of the power of hate to seduce and poison the innocent." —Kati Marton, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Power