Ján Zambor stands out against the background of young poetry through the weight and meaning of the poems in his first collection
Green Evening. The landscape of childhood (Zemplín) is made alive by the people close to him; parents, grandparents, and wife. He draws from the Slovak and the Russian symbolists, from Yessenin, yet his village is contemporary though it has not lost its poetic essences. Zambor can express the mood of full summer, the culmination of the year in nature and perhaps even better the atmosphere of pain and sorrow form the isolation or death of those closest to us.
Albín Bagin (1978)
Zambor's understanding of poetry is very close to the poets-craftsmen, the poets of special moments, who write in the moments of innermost concentration. A poem then really becomes an "act of spiritual cleansing".
Daniel Hevier
Zambor is an exemplar of the post-revolutionary period of uncertainty in the 1990's where the relationship of the individual to a larger human context is problematic.
James Sutherland-Smith
