Book of the edge by Ece Temelkuran and translated by Deniz Perin

This is poetry from Turkey.

Book of the edge by Ece Temelkuran translated by Deniz Perin is published by BOA Editions. This is a Book originally written in Turkish. This was published in 2010.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781934414361E12.

Ece Temelkuran’s Book of the edge, translated by Deniz Perin, is a Turkish work that appears to stand deliberately at a boundary: political and personal, private and public, language and risk. The title gives the reader a useful doorway. An edge is a place of danger, but also of perception. It is where one sees what the center refuses to notice. Temelkuran is known across forms as a writer of political intelligence, and this book belongs on the poetry shelf as a work of pressure, address, and refusal. Published by BOA Editions, it asks for a reader willing to sit near discomfort and listen for what language does when ordinary certainty has become impossible.

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