Madrigals by İlhan Berk and translated by George Messo

This is poetry from Turkey.

Madrigals by İlhan Berk translated by George Messo is published by Shearsman Books. This is a Book originally written in Turkish. This was published in 2008.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781905700738E12.

İlhan Berk’s Madrigals, translated by George Messo, gives a more focused entrance into the Turkish poet’s lyric and experimental powers. A madrigal carries associations of song, intimacy, and shaped address, but Berk’s poetry rarely lets inherited form remain simple. What matters is the way music becomes thinking, and thinking becomes image. The poems should be approached less as messages to decode than as small machines of perception. They let language turn, echo, contradict, and bloom. Published by Shearsman Books, this entry helps anchor modern Turkish poetry in the library as a tradition of formal restlessness and sensual intelligence. It is a book for readers who like lyric music with sharp edges.

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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