Blind Cat Black And The Orthodoxies by Ece Ayhan and translated by Murat Nemet-Nejat

This is poetry from Turkey.

Blind Cat Black And The Orthodoxies by Ece Ayhan translated by Murat Nemet-Nejat is published by Green Integer. This is a Book originally written in Turkish. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781933382364E12.

Blind Cat Black And The Orthodoxies, by Ece Ayhan, is a Turkish poetry collection from Turkey, translated by Murat Nemet-Nejat, published by Green Integer in 2009. It is a Turkish collection by Ece Ayhan, one of the great difficult figures of modern Turkish poetry. The poems feel anti-official in spirit, prowling through shadowed history, street life, perversity, and the broken grammar of what orthodoxies try to suppress. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can be felt. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Turkey; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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