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Poetry collections certainly will want Hood’s
inspired renditions. In a partly bilingual edition….done in collaboration
with the author. Fried, a Jew from Vienna living in London, has a
political concern that covers a range of international issues and
attitudes; a poetical voice of infallible distinction, energy, and wit;
and a rare measure of wisdom rooted in Marxist humanism. Inge Judd
Library Journal
Invitation to Forget
Don’t be stupid
says the wind
The world goes on turning
Everything changes
One must forget what has been
If you could forget your field
says the poisoned crop
and if you could forget
your white house
says the rubble…
and if you could forget your two sisters
says the path to the graves
and if you could forget the screams
say the ears
then you could stop courting danger
then you could sail far away like a fig in a ships’ belly
that has been plucked and is free of its tree
then you could be free like a grain of sand in the wind
free at last
of the native land you have lost …
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