Poems Of Nazim Hikmet Rev/Exp Pa

by Blasing,Randy

• ISBN13: 9780892552740
• ISBN10: 0892552743
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-17
• Publisher: PERSEA

Summary

The definitive selection by the first and foremost modern Turkish poet.

Author Biography

Randy Blasing, a former National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, has published seven other books of translation and six collections of poetry Mutlu Konuk, a native of Istanbul, is Professor of English at Brown University. She has published seven other books of translation and three critical works

Table of Contents

Translators' Preface	viii
Foreword	ix
Introduction	xiii
About My Poetry	3	(1)
Regarding Art	4	(2)
Gioconda and Si-Ya-U	6	(26)
A Spring Piece Left in the Middle	32	(3)
On Shirts, Pants, Cloth Caps, and Felt Hats	35	(3)
Letter to My Wife	38	(2)
The Epic of Sheik Bedreddin	40	(32)
Hymn to Life	72	(2)
Letters from a Man in Solitary	74	(4)
On Death Again	78	(2)
Istanbul House of Detention	80	(4)
Hello	84	(1)
Letters from Chankiri Prison	85	(7)
A Strange Feeling	92	(2)
On the Twentieth Century	94	(1)
Letter from My Wife	95	(2)
9-10 P.M. Poems	97	(16)
Ninth Anniversary	113	(3)
Hazel Are My Lady's Eyes	116	(1)
Rubaiyat	117	(6)
Since I Was Thrown Inside	123	(3)
I Love You	126	(1)
On Ibrahim Balaban's Painting ``Spring''	127	(2)
About Mount Uludagh	129	(2)
The Strangest Creature on Earth	131	(1)
On Living	132	(3)
It's This Way	135	(1)
Angina Pectoris	136	(1)
Occupation	137	(1)
You're	138	(1)
I Made a Journey	139	(2)
About Your Hands and Lies	141	(2)
Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison	143	(2)
On the Matter of Romeo and Juliet	145	(1)
Sadness	146	(1)
On Ibrahim Balaban's Painting ``The Prison Gates''	147	(2)
After Getting Out of Prison	149	(6)
You	155	(1)
Last Will and Testament	156	(2)
To Lydia Ivanna	158	(2)
The Mailman	160	(2)
Message	162	(2)
About the Sea	164	(2)
Last Letter to My Son	166	(4)
Letter from Istanbul	170	(6)
In the Snowy Night Woods	176	(2)
New Year's Eve	178	(1)
Elegy for Satan	179	(2)
Faust's House	181	(2)
Prague Dawn	183	(1)
Noon in Prague	184	(2)
Optimistic Prague	186	(2)
To Samet Vurgun	188	(1)
I Got a Letter from Munevver Saying	189	(1)
I Wrote a Letter to Munevver Saying	190	(1)
From Sofia	191	(2)
Bor Hotel	193	(1)
The Balcony	194	(1)
The Last Bus	195	(2)
This Thing Called Prague	197	(2)
Some Memories	199	(5)
Optimism	204	(1)
Thirty Years Ago	205	(3)
A Fable of Fables	208	(2)
Bach's Concerto No. 1 in C Minor	210	(2)
Conversation with Dead Nezval	212	(2)
Elegy for Mikhail Refili	214	(2)
Early Fall	216	(1)
The Bees	217	(1)
Windows	218	(3)
The Old Man on the Shore	221	(2)
The Optimist	223	(1)
Because	224	(1)
This Journey	225	(1)
The Icebreaker	226	(1)
Two Loves	227	(2)
Waitress	229	(1)
To Vera	230	(1)
Early Light	231	(2)
Baku at Night	233	(1)
The Cucumber	234	(1)
My Woman	235	(1)
Vera Waking	236	(1)
Separation	237	(1)
Loving You	238	(1)
Because of You	239	(1)
Suddenly	240	(1)
Six O'Clock	241	(1)
About Us	242	(1)
Straw-Blond	243	(13)
Untitled	256	(1)
Falling Leaves	257	(1)
Welcome	258	(1)
Autobiography	259	(2)
Things I Didn't Know I Loved	261	(4)
I Stepped Out of My Thoughts of Death	265	(1)
I'm Getting Used to Growing Old	266	(1)
Berlin Letters	267	(2)
My Funeral	269	(1)
Vera	270	(1)
Notes	271