A Brave New Quest: 100 Modern Tutkish Poems

A Brave fresh Quest: 100 Modern Tutkish Poems

Talat s Halman, Editor and Translator

Jayne L Warner, Associate Editor

Syracuse University Press

1600 Jamesville Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210

www.SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu

0815608403 $1995 112 pages 1-800-365-8929

"A Brave novel Quest: 100 Modern Turkish Poems" is a beautiful rare jewel . Illuminate by means of a sapphire blue with white, flame and peacock overspread photographed detail from Iznik tile in the Rutwem Pasha mahometan temple in Istanbul, this is the alone anthology of modern Turkish numbers translated into English. Coming from a nation where virtually everyone is a bard the anthology contains a vibrant, varied and sophisticated sampling of late Turkish poetry. Here you will find piece of poetrys about fear, death, love, nature, change, bewilderment of the faculty of perceptions transfiguration, cruelty and social injustice, pain, reliance laughter, tears, joy and despair, and above all passionate longing. bards whose work are included in this translation include Nazim Hikmet, Fazil Husnu Daglarca,Orhan Veli Kanik, Behdet Necatigil, Attila Ilhan, Melih Cevdet Anday, Edip Cansever, Ece Ayhan, Kemal Ozer Ulku Tamer, and in the way that many more. Each poetic work is pick outed and translated with loving care for the fine imagery, the lyrical syllables smooth in English. Editor Talat s Halman has many starry credentials to explain the fine workmanship in "A Brave novel Quest." Besides being a leading translator of Turkish literature and many works about modern Turkish playwrights and author of poemss he is an award winning avatar for Turkish agriculture and literature. Besides translating major works of English into Turkish and vice versa, he is an accomplished playwright, bard and writer. Awards he has received include Columbia University's Thornton Wilder Translation Prize, the 1999 Service Award from the Turkish Academy of Sciences for enhancing the recognition of Turkish literature, and the Distinguished Service Award from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2000 His offering in "A Brave novel Quest" seems equivalent to a prism that allows the rainbow of beauty and complexity of fresh Turkish poetry to sing, quietly, to an English speaking audience. It is actual difficult to select a quotation from like a fine collection, but here is individual choice from a poem called (untitled) by the agency of Nazim Hikmet:

suffer us give the world to the children at least for single day Let them play with it as if it's a spangled balloon give leave to them sing and dance among the stars

suffer us give the world to the children Like a colossal apple or a warm loaf of bread

at least for single day so that they'll have enough to eat

allow us give the world to the children in the way that that even if it's for individual day it will learn what friendship is

The children will take the world without of our hands and they will plant immortal tree (p 20)

Here is however another fragment, the sixth definition of verse from fifteen in a from a piece of poetry entitled "Responses for Poetry" by dint of Ulku Tamer: Poetry is the drinking bucket's fountain the well's traveler.

It is the guard at the source (p 160)

"A Brave novel Quest: 100 Modern Turkish Poems" will enthrall, entice, and enlighten its favored readers. May its copies take wing off the shelves into the hands of those who with truth appreciate what poetry has to offer

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