Translator’s Introduction • Attila József: Curriculum Vitae (1937) • Chronology • 1923 • A Tired Man • Glassmakers • Diamond • 1924 • And We Keep Looking for Justice • Disabled Veterans • For Seven Days • A Just Man • That’s Not Me Shouting • The Dog • A Fine Summer Evening • 1925 • Wind-Riding Bird • With a Pure Heart • Spring Mud • April 11 • In Fog, in Silence • On Evening Clouds • Attila József • Without Knocking • 1926 • Worker • Conjuring the Lion • To Sit, To Stand, To Kill, To Die • The Ant • In the End • Bells • My Funeral • 1927 • Introduction • Encouraging • Postcard from Paris • O Europe • Epitaph • 1928 • Dappled • Aron József • Pearl • Coral Beads • Glimmering Rose • Medallions • 1929 • Medallion • The Rain Falls • Tiszazug • Woodcutter • 1930 • Summer • Grief • 1931 • Mother • 1932 • Wasteland • Frost • Night in the Slums • Rain • In the Fields • The Seventh • Trees • The Net • 1933 • A Child Is Crying • Winter Night • Without Hope • Yellow Grasses • On the City’s Edge • Elegy • Ode • Freight Trains • 1934 • Summer Afternoon • Consciousness • Village • Terror • 1935 • On the Pavement • Lullaby • I Open a Door • Modern Sonnet • Humans • Be a Fool! • I Did Not Know • Guilt • A Breath of Air! • Belated Lament • 1936 • When the Moon Shines • On Freud’s Eightieth Birthday • By the Danube • As in a Field • It Hurts a Lot • Firewood • 1937 • FLORA 1. Hexameters • 2. Mysteries • For Flora • March, 1937 • Birthday Poem • An Ancient Rat • Long Ago • When Your Soul • A Last I Understand My Father • I Saw Beauty • Dusk • You Brought a Stake • Here, at Last, I Found My Home • Only You Should Read My Poems