A brave new quest : 100 modern Turkish poems / editor and translator, Talat S. Halman ; associate editor, Jayne L. Warner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Halman, Talât Sait.

Warner, Jayne L.

Series:

Middle East literature in translation

Language:

English

Turkish

Subjects (All):

Turkish poetry--Translations into English.

Turkish poetry.

Physical Description:

xv, 189 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2006.

Summary:

A Brave New Quest: 100 Modern Turkish Poems is a selection of modern Turkish poetry that conveys in faithful translations the full spectrum of Turkish humor, intellectual exploration, love, politics, and social justice. It contains stirring selections representing the revolutionary romanticism of Nazim Hikmet and the passionate wisdom of Fazil Husnu Daglarca-as well as the rebellious spirit of the social realists and the diversity of many of the young poets.

An enduring passion among the Turks for centuries, poetry is an art practiced not only by professional poets, but by sultans and soldiers, housewives and scholars. Many genres that were the exclusive domain of prose in other cultures flourished in verse in Turkey: travelogues, chronicles, correspondence, even scientific tracts and school textbooks. Traditionally, intellectuals expressed their unorthodox and heretical ideas in meter and rhyme.

Since 1923, when the Turkish Republic came into being, poetry has launched new ideologies and aesthetic values. Featuring a wide variety of the poetry that is the lifeblood of Turkish society, the poems in this volume reveal the soul of a nation-infused with their own unique flavors while speaking in an unmistakably universal style.

Contents:

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

Fear 3

Awakening 4

/ Nazim Hikmet

Today Is Sunday 5

Silence 6

From: The Epic of the War of Liberation 8

From: The Epic of Sheikh Bedreddin 10

Quatrains 15

About Living 17

[untitled] 20

No Tree Has Ever Given Such Marvelous Fruit 21

/ Necip Fazil Kisakurek

Anguish 22

/ Asaf Halet Celebi

Abraham 27

/ Ahmet Muhip Diranas

Two Solitary Trees 28

/ Cahit Sitki Taranci

Poem at Thirty-Five 29

After Death 31

Terror 32

/ Bedri Rahmi Eyuboglu

The Saga of Istanbul 33

/ Fazil Husnu Daglarca

From: The Epic of Cakir 40

In Passage 41

Ugly 42

From: The Epic of the Conquest of Istanbul 45

Stone Inscription 48

To the Public Prosecutor 49

Quatrains 50

Beacon 51

A Corpse Turns Cold 54

My Translators 56

Night of the Amnesty 57

Imperial Command 59

Endless Silence 60

Return 61

/ Orhan Veli Kanik

I Am Listening to Istanbul 62

For You 64

This World 65

Living 66

Exodus 67

For Our Homeland 68

Just for the Hell of It 69

/ Oktay Rifat

The Flute 70

A Formidable Gypsy 71

/ Melih Cevdet Anday

On the Nomad Sea 72

Startling Encounter 78

The Flower of Darkness 79

Are We Going To Live Without Aging? 80

Vertigo 81

Copper Age 82

The Battle of Kadesh 84

From: Odysseus Bound 85

/ Behcet Necatigil

Time of Death 87

Limit 88

Dark Dominion 89

/ Cahit Kulebi

A Story of the Sea 90

/ Ilhan Berk

Dead 91

For Homer 93

/ Ceyhun Atuf Kansu

The Critics 94

The Daily Rose 96

/ Salah Birsel

Geography Lesson 97

/ Sabahattin Kudret Aksal

Old Night 99

/ Necati Cumali

Mozart's Birds 100

/ Ozdemir Asaf

Aphorisms 101

/ Attila Ilhan

Ancient Sea Folk 102

The Dead Have Grown Old 105

Captain 106

Another Man 108

/ Can Yucel

History Lesson at the Flea Market 111

/ Umit Yasar Oguzcan

The Left Ear of the Grand Vizier 114

/ Nuzhet Erman

The Big Tale 115

/ Turgut Uyar

And Came the Tailors 116

Deer Night 120

/ Metin Eloglu

Rasp 123

/ Edip Cansever

Vanish 124

Bedouin 126

Crab 127

/ Talat S. Halman

The Desolate Locust 130

/ Cemal Sureya

Blood Lurks Under All Words 137

Just at These Hours 139

/ Ece Ayhan

Monument of the Unknown Student 141

Kindertotenlieder 142

The Voice of Poetry by the Seashore 143

/ Gulten Akin

Rain 144

/ Ahmet Oktay

All Men Die 145

/ Kemal Ozer

All the King's Men 148

Like a Flame 149

The Tuft 150

/ Hilmi Yavuz

now for whatever reason 151

/ Ozdemir Ince

In Praise of My Father 152

Our Sons 153

/ Ferit Edgu

From: Lecture Notes 155

/ Ulku Tamer

The Dagger 157

Sunday in the Meadows 158

Responses for Poetry 159

/ Turgay Gonenc

Unexpected Sights 162

/ Cahit Zarifoglu

Toward Freedom 163

/ Ataol Behramoglu

Some Day for Sure 166

/ Sennur Sezer

To Stay Out of the Fight 169

/ Ismet Ozel

A Shroud for My Darling 170

/ Enis Batur

Lot's Woman 172

/ Murathan Mungan

Last Swans 173

/ Ahmet Erhan

Waiting Beside a Friend's Coffin 174.

ISBN:

0815608403

OCLC:

62290569

Publisher Number:

9780815608400