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Junayd and Other Poems – Asaf Halet Çelebi

Dec 29, 2021 | | 0 |

Translated from Turkish by Neil P. Doherty Junayd                             “leyse fi cübbeti sivallah”*                                junayd of baghdad   those who look at me see but my body...

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Poems by Edip Cansever

Nov 26, 2021 | | 0 |

Edip Cansever (August 8, 1928 – May 28, 1986) was a Turkish poet, considered part of the  Ikinci Yeni movement which was a loosely affiliated group of poets who embraced modernism and brought about a revolution in Turkish poetry

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Two Poems from “835 Lines” by Nazım Hikmet

Oct 28, 2021 | | 0 |

Nâzım Hikmet Ran,commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet, was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the “lyrical flow of his statements”. Described as a “romantic communist” and “romantic revolutionary”, he was repeatedly arrested for his political beliefs and spent much of his adult life in prison or in exile. His poetry has been translated from Turkish by Neil P Doherty.

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The Painting in the Cup: El Greco – Nazli Karabiyikoglu

Oct 23, 2021 | | 0 |

The road became steep as I climbed, then it turned into twistedness in my chest. My growling lungs howled, I  was breathless with hard coughs. As I felt it wasn’t attractive anymore to follow the mysteries by acting on Moor’s advice, I saw the man’s garden from the low part of the thick, high walls. Interestingly enough, I saw the intertwined cloths he tried to unwind. He tried to spread cloths which were three or four times taller than himself on the ground, then stepping on another cloth, he wrapped himself in the cloth again. He reminded me of Don Quixote.

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