Book record
Madrigals
İlhan Berk
Translated from Turkish by George Messo
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.
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Shearsman Books
- Language
- Turkish
- Country
- Turkey
- ISBN
- 9781905700738