Poetry. Translated from the Hungarian by Michael Blumenthal. Kantor shares with his fellow Central and Eastern European poets the destiny of being, unavoidably, a political poet of sorts. The past, as he admits in his long, historically-infused poem, Ancestors,hangs from me. And yet his politics...pervasively an antipolitics, a politics that stands back and observes with a cold, kwing, and bemused eye the vagaries and quotidian comi-tragedies of private life as it attempts to cope with and navigate the conundrums of public events and ideologies.