Szandra May a hóhullásban
Sandra May in the Snowfall

The Poetry of Annamária Kinde

Summary/Abstract: It can be said that the critical response to the poetic work of Annamária Kinde, a poet who lived in Oradea, publishing nine individual volumes of poetry in the past eighteen years, and died in January 2014, has not been overwhelming either in Hungary or Transylvania. Although some reviews of her works were published, most of these appeared in literary reviews with which she was in more regular contact (such are, for instance, the Látó of Marosvásárhely/Targu Mures, Helikon of Kolozsvár/Cluj, Irodalmi Jelen of Arad, or the review Várad, of which she was also an editor), and where she also published her works from time to time. Albeit rarely, her poetry has also been published in reviews from Hungary (Hitel, Holmi), but criticism of her work has almost exclusively been published in Hungarian literary forums of Transylvania. This perspective, tragical perhaps, reflecting on her entire lifework, has several points of reference. First, one must speak about the place of Annamária Kinde’s poetry in contemporary Hungarian literature (from Hungary and from Transylvania), because the previous criticism has always only focused on the evaluation of her individual volumes, and failed to delineate the poetic, historical or genre traditions along which her poetry can be grasped and interpreted.

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