Gabor G. Gyukics (b. 1958) poet, jazz poet, literary translator born in Budapest, Hungary. He is the author of 11 books of original poetry, 6 in Hungarian, 2 in English, 1 in Arabic, 1 in Bulgarian, 1 in Czech, 1 book of original prose, and 19 books of translations including A Transparent Lion, selected poetry of Attila József (2006) and They’ll Be Good for Seed, a Contemporary Hungarian Poetry (2021) (in English, both with co-translator Michael Castro) and an anthology of North American Indigenous poets in Hungarian titled Medvefelhő a város felett (2015). He writes his poems in English (which is his second language) and Hungarian. He had lived in Holland for two years before moving to the US where he'd lived between 1988-2002, at present he resides in Szeged, Hungary.
His poetic works and translations have been published in hundreds of magazines and anthologies in English, Hungarian and other languages worldwide. He was a recipient of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC) residency in Canada in 2011.
His latest book in English titled a hermit has no plural was published by Singing Bone Press in the fall of 2015. His latest book in Hungarian titled végigtapint was published by Lector Press in May 2018.
In September 2020, he received the Hungary Beat Poet Laureate Lifetime award by the National Beat Poetry Foundation Inc. USA.
not on her own
with lowered wings
the wind appeared
she didn’t blow anyone’s hair
didn’t flutter the leaves on the trees
she swayed beyond the fence
in the early sunset
camouflaged herself as a reflection
as if she couldn’t decide
whether she wanted to be sensed or seen
she jumped over the fence a few times
looked around
and before an outside force
flew her away
she ran a fast round
under the wings of a dead angel
the moon is making love
to the sun
the negative of their bodies
lie in every river bed
mountain range
dirt road
next to your footprint
in every ditch
by the walnut tree
you’ll find a piece
of the moon
and not far from it
under the plum tree
shines a broken part
of the sun
