A Brave New Quest

by Halman, Talat S.

• ISBN13: 9780815608400
• ISBN10: 0815608403
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-30
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Note on Turkish Spelling	xv
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpmar
Fear	3	(1)
Awakening	4	(1)
Nairn Hikmet
Today Is Sunday	5	(1)
Silence	6	(9)
From: The Epic of the War of Liberation	8	(2)
From: The Epic of Sheikh Bedreddin	10	(5)
Quatrains	15	(2)
About Living	17	(3)
[untitled]	20	(1)
No Tree Has Ever Given Such Marvelous Fruit	21	(1)
Necip Fazil Kisakürek
Anguish	22	(5)
Asaf Halet Çelebi
Abraham	27	(1)
Ahmet Muhip Diranas
Two Solitary Trees	28	(1)
Cahit Sitki Taranci
Poem at Thirty-Five	29	(2)
After Death	31	(1)
Terror	32	(1)
Bedri Rahmi Eyuboglu
The Saga of Istanbul	33	(7)
Fazil Hüsnü Daglarca
From: The Epic of Çakir	40	(1)
In Passage	41	(1)
Ugly	42	(6)
From: The Epic of the Conquest of Istanbul	45	(3)
Stone Inscription	48	(1)
To the Public Prosecutor	49	(1)
Quatrains	50	(1)
Beacon	51	(2)
Audience	53	(1)
A Corpse Turns Cold	54	(2)
My Translators	56	(1)
Night of the Amnesty	57	(2)
Imperial Command	59	(1)
Endless Silence	60	(1)
Return	61	(1)
Orhan Veli Kanik
I Am Listening to Istanbul	62	(2)
For You	64	(1)
This World	65	(1)
Living	66	(1)
Exodus	67	(1)
For Our Homeland	68	(1)
Just for the Hell of It	69	(1)
Oklay Rifat
The Flute	70	(1)
A Formidable Gypsy	71	(1)
Melih Cevdet Anday
On the Nomad Sea	72	(6)
Startling Encounter	78	(1)
The Flower of Darkness	79	(1)
Are We Going To Live Without Aging?	80	(1)
Vertigo	81	(1)
Copper Age	82	(2)
The Battle of Kadesh	84	(3)
From: Odysseus Bound	85	(2)
Behçet Necatigil
Time of Death	87	(1)
Limit	88	(1)
Dark Dominion	89	(1)
Cahit Külebi
A Story of the Sea	90	(1)
Ilhan Berk
Dead	91	(2)
For Homer	93	(1)
Ceyhun Atuf Kansu
The Critics	94	(2)
The Daily Rose	96	(1)
Salâh Birsel
Geography Lesson	97	(2)
Sabahattin Kudret Aksal
Old Night	99	(1)
Necati Cumah
Mozart's Birds	100	(1)
Özdemir Asaf
Aphorisms	101	(1)
Attilâ Ilhan
Ancient Sea Folk	102	(3)
The Dead Have Grown Old	105	(1)
Captain	106	(2)
Another Man	108	(3)
Can Kücel
History Lesson at the Flea Market	111	(3)
Ümit Yasar Oguzcan
The Left Ear of the Grand Vizier	114	(1)
Nüzhet Erman
The Big Tale	115	(1)
Turgut Uyar
And Came the Tailors	116	(4)
Deer Night	120	(3)
Metin Eloglu
Rasp	123	(1)
Edip Cansever
Vanish	124	(2)
Bedouin	126	(1)
Crab	127	(3)
Talat S. Halman
The Desolate Locust	130	(7)
Cemal Süreya
Blood Lurks Under All Words	137	(2)
Just at These Hours	139	(2)
Ece Ayhan
Monument of the Unknown Student	141	(2)
Kindertotenlieder	142	(1)
The Voice of Poetry by the Seashore	143	(1)
Gülten Akin
Rain	144	(1)
Ahmet Oktay
All Men Die	145	(3)
Kemal Özer
All the King's Men	148	(1)
Like a Flame	149	(1)
The Tuft	150	(1)
Hilmi Yavuz
now for whatever reason	151	(1)
Özdemir Ince
In Praise of My Father	152	(1)
Our Sons	153	(2)
Ferit Edgü
From: Lecture Notes	155	(2)
Ülkü Tamer
Tower The Dagger	157	(1)
Sunday in the Meadows	158	(1)
Responses for Poetry	159	(3)
Turgay Gönenç
Unexpected Sights	162	(1)
Cahit Zarifoglu
Toward Freedom	163	(3)
Ataol Behramoglu
Some Day for Sure	166	(3)
Sennur Sezer
To Stay Out of the Fight	169	(1)
Ismet Özel
A Shroud for My Darling	170	(2)
Enis Batur
Lot's Woman	172	(1)
Murathan Mungan
Last Swans	173	(1)
Ahmet Erhan
Waiting Beside a Friend's Coffin	174	(3)
Biographical Notes	177	(10)
About the Editors	187	(2)
Acknowledgments	189