Eda : An Enthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry

by Nemet-Nejat, Murat; Nemet-Nejat, Murat

• ISBN13: 9781584980346
• ISBN10: 1584980346
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: Small Pr Distribution

Summary

Poetry. Translation. Middle Eastern Studies. The only U.S. anthology to date to track the develpment of one of the great poetic traditions of our time. Nemet-Nejat offers an introduction to modern and contemporary Turkish poetry, until now largely unknown in the West. "We ignore such work at our own peril: we're in another world, and Murat Nemet-Nejat welcomes us to it"--Ammiel Alcalay.

Table of Contents

Talat Sait Halman
Preface	1	(3)
Murat Nemet-Nejat
The Idea of a Book	4	(20)
POETRY
Ahmet Hasim
That Space	24	(3)
Glass	27	(1)
``In a grieving perfection's insomnia''	28	(1)
Ascension	29	(1)
``Out of the beloved's lip''	30	(1)
``A river of fire''	31	(1)
Yahya Kemal Beyatli
That Summer	32	(1)
Night	33	(1)
Reunion	34	(2)
Faruk Nafiz Camlibel
The Escaper	36	(1)
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
Whole Summer	37	(1)
Bar	38	(1)
Roads Too Early	39	(1)
Nazim Hikmet
The Blue-Eyed Giant	40	(2)
Poems of Twenty-One and Twenty-Two O'Clock	42	(2)
Since I Was Put	44	(3)
The Night on August 26,2:30 A.M. to 3:30 A.M	47	(17)
Necip Fazil Kisakurek
``Neither the sick wait for morning''	64
Gazel	51	(1)
``Merciful boxy hotel rooms, smoky oil lamps, oil lamps''	52	(1)
``I am a wanderer on earth''	53	(1)
Fret	54	(1)
Sait Faik
The Man Who Did Calisthenics	55	(5)
Maricula	60	(2)
Asaf Halet Celebi
``The lover is only one, but to look at herself''	62	(1)
H	63	(1)
Uncle Sea Buoy	64	(1)
Maria	65	(1)
A Manifesto of the Eye	66	(1)
Orhan Veli Kanik
Quantitative	67	(1)
Makes Me Dizzy	68	(1)
Exodus I	69	(1)
My Friend Sabri	70	(1)
Invitation	71	(1)
The Guest	72	(1)
Birds Tell Lies	73	(1)
I Am Listening To Istanbul	74	(2)
Suicide	76	(1)
Trip	77	(1)
People	78	(1)
The Shameful Feelings of a Bad Man	79	(1)
Ecstasy	80	(1)
For the Hell of It	81	(1)
To Keep Busy	82	(1)
The Galata Bridge	83	(1)
The Parade Of Love	84	(3)
Celal Silay
``branch swings in the wind''	87	(1)
Oktay Rifat
Ancient Seals	88	(1)
Melih Cevdet Anday
The Pigeon	89	(1)
Behcet Necatigil
Exam	90	(1)
Frost	91	(1)
Ready Made	92	(1)
House	93	(1)
Unsaid Love	94	(1)
Cahit Kulebi
``Trucks carry melons''	95	(1)
``Rosy lips''	96	(2)
Ilhan Berk
Time Of Hunting	98	(2)
Garden	100	(2)
Garlic	102	(2)
Homer's Commentators and Slaves	104	(2)
Reading Li Po	106	(1)
Neither Did I See Such Loves/Nor Such Partings	107	(1)
Jet-Black	108	(1)
Fish Market, Backstage Street	109	(3)
The Denizens of the Arcade Hristaki	112	(5)
Arif Damar
The Broken Spool	117	(5)
Metin Eloglu
Love Letter	122	(2)
The Address of Turkey	124	(1)
Turgut Uyar
A Virtuous Lady's Unfortunate Life	125	(2)
Ahmet Arif
Notes from the Diyarbekir Fortress	127	(4)
Thirty-three Bullets	131	(5)
Leyli, My Leyli	136	(2)
Cemal Sureya
Houri's Rose	138	(1)
Dying in a Turkish Bath	139	(1)
``The woman stripped herself slowly''	140	(1)
``The most beautiful woman, she was''	141	(1)
``Whereas a glass of water was enough to wet your hair''	142	(1)
``They sheared the cloud, the cloud now is clear''	143	(1)
The Apple	144	(2)
The Bee	146	(1)
Muezzin	147	(1)
Drizzle	148	(1)
``Whenever we threw a cigarette into the water''	149	(1)
In Your Country	150	(3)
Two Things	153	(3)
Second is	156	(2)
from Couplets	158	(1)
Photograph	159	(1)
``Life is short''	160	(1)
``This government''	161	(1)
``'Dying?' you said''	162	(1)
``I'm dying, God''	163	(1)
``After Twelve P.M.''	164	(1)
Ece Ayhan
Miss Kinar's Waters	165	(1)
Phaeton	166	(1)
To Trace from Hebrew	167	(1)
Wall Street	168	(2)
Spill	170	(1)
``And the Sirocco was born''	171	(1)
``You have a smile, wicked, I'll grant you''	172	(1)
Mermaid Eftalia	173	(1)
A Tree Full of Songs	174	(2)
Harbor	176	(1)
The Nigger in a Photograph	177	(1)
Epitafio	178	(1)
Orthodoxies I	179	(1)
Orthodoxies X	180	(1)
Orthodoxies XV	181	(1)
Gultan Akin
The Wedding and the Snow	182	(2)
Ozdemir Ince
Sage	184	(2)
1968, Filled with Love	186	(1)
Stay with Me	187	(1)
Continuities	188	(2)
Melisa Gurpinar
The Bank Teller Tecelli Bey	190	(6)
Enis Batur
Gloria	196	(1)
Passport	197	(5)
Ahmet Guntan
Romeo & Romeo	202	(6)
Lale Muldur
turkish red	208	(2)
turkish blue	210	(1)
blauwviolet	211	(1)
Waking to Constantinople	212	(5)
Virgin Mary's Smoke	217	(12)
The Yellowing	229	(3)
Haydar Ergulen
Caramel	232	(2)
Placid	234	(1)
Nilgun Marmara
``Love is a kilim''	235	(1)
Mustafa Ziyalan
Days	236	(2)
Kumkapi, by the Sea	238	(1)
The Shape of Clouds	239	(1)
Grandfather Clock	240	(1)
Oedipus De-boned	241	(1)
from Isms	242	(4)
Seyhan Erozcelik
``A dream in Istanbul of falling''	246	(2)
Platonic	248	(2)
Coffee Grinds	250	(19)
Sami Baydar
Leaves	269	(2)
Water	271	(1)
Pitcher	272	(2)
Virgin River	274	(1)
Seagulls	275	(1)
``In the insanity of turtles''	276	(1)
A Sea Bird	277	(1)
Jacket	278	(2)
Gigi	280	(1)
Baptismal Font	281	(2)
His Winter Friend	283	(2)
Guillevic and the Leopard's Bed	285	(2)
Here It's Coming	287	(1)
``In my bed a wave covers me''	288	(1)
No One Home	289	(2)
Kucuk Iskender
souljam	291	(22)
Didem Madak
Sir, I Want to Write Poems with Flowers	313	(4)
ESSAYS
Preface	317	(2)
Ahmet Hasim and Yahya Kemal Beyatli: Arguments on the Origins of Turkish Poetry	319	(4)
A Godless Sufism: Ideas on the Twentieth-Century Turkish Poetry	323	(11)
Annotations on Lale Muldur's ``Waking to Constantinople.''	334	(3)
A Moment Please: kucuk Iskender's Preface to canguncem [souljam]	337	(2)
souljam / canguncem: kucuk Iskender's Subjectivity	339	(5)
Ahmet Guntan' Romeo and Romeo: The Melody of Sufi Union	344	(2)
Some Notes on Eda by Mustafa Ziyalan	346	(3)
Notes on a Turkish Trip: The Sights and Colors of Turkey	349	(3)
from Pornography of the Image by Zeynep Sayin	352	(6)
Are Turks Really . . . Dangerous? An Interview with Lale Muldur	358	(4)
Appendix	362