Orcsik Roland - Legalja

Roland Orcsik's fifth volume of poems, like the books of the Old Testament prophets, proclaims that there is no lower. Its perspective is that of the "frog plate" on the cover, József Nagy's frog trampled on the bank of the Tisza, which, pushing off the spines of the horse chestnut tree, raises its legs towards the sky. Or hit him on the forehead with it. Legalja's texts are heard from the no man's land between transcendent ethics and profane liturgy, from the land of unfaithful words. Their speaker is an "opera hero without a role and an aria", a late relative of the mad prophets, who is aware of the anachronistic nature of his vocation: "I won't be the one to take you to the other side, among the tall willows. So jump into the Tisza alone, scumbag, and swim across. Maybe learn to row better than me."

"When I woke up,
there was red on my calf
the thorny prophecy"