Book record
İkinci yeni
Anthology
Translated from Turkish by George Messo
İkinci yeni is an anthology of Turkish poetry, translated by George Messo, published by Shearsman Books in 2009. It is an anthology of Turkish Second New poetry, a movement associated with difficulty, abstraction, surprise, and modernist fracture. As an anthology, it gives English-language readers access to a field of poems where sense is not abandoned but pressured into new shapes. 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.
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Shearsman Books
- Language
- Turkish
- Country
- Turkey
- ISBN
- 9781848610668