İkinci yeni by Anthology and translated by George Messo

This is poetry from Turkey.

İkinci yeni by Anthology translated by George Messo is published by Shearsman Books. This is a Book originally written in Turkish. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781848610668E12.

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.

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.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.