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Kannás Alajos
(1926–1999) a prolific poet of American Hungarian literature. His verse follows and preserves established poetic traditions, expressing thoughts and emotions in the pursuit of simplicity and easily recognizable images, expressing the realities of the emigrant destiny, and its fully transforming human impacts:
Zas Lóránt
Poet and Writer. Following the crushed Revolution and Freedom Fight of 1956, he was arrested on the false accusation of establishing an anti-state organization in 1957, and was imprisoned. After obtaining his freedom, he worked as a day laborer and later as an electrician. In August of 1967, he escaped to Italy. In January of 1968, he emigrated to the USA.
He has published eight volumes of poems and two volumes of prose which have appeared in periodicals such as Literary Journal (Irodalmi Újság);New Horizon (Új Látóhatár);Here and There (Itt-Ott), the Chronicle (Krónika), Rainbow (Szivárvány), and Our Homeland (Hazánk). In 1973-1974, he edited the journal, The West (Napnyugat), in Los Angeles. His major works include Chess (Sakk) poems (Los Angeles, 1973); Imprisoned (Ülsz);Anomalous Notes from the Diaspora (Rendhagyó jegyzetek a diaszpórából) poems (Los Angeles, 1977); Jézust kiáltó(A Cry to Jesus) poems (1980); Eroazia (1986); Go and Carve an Altar (Oltárt faragj) poems (1989); In the Name of Your Nation (Nemzeted nevében) poems (Budapest, 1991); Under the Blue Winter Sky (Téli, kék ég alatt), and The Book of Courage (A bátorság könyve.). He is regarded as one of the truthful poets of the Revolution and Freedom Fight of 1956. He received the 1956 Memorial Medal, and he was decorated twice by the Congress of the USA.
Hungarian Folk-Metal band: belonging to the third generation of the so-called “dancing house” movement, an attempt to save folk culture from oblivion and urbanization. Their single “Neveket akarok hallani” was written commemorating the Hungarian revolution of 1956 against the communist regime.
