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New selected poems, 1947-2008
İlhan Berk
Translated from Turkish by George Messo
İlhan Berk’s New selected poems, 1947-2008, translated by George Messo, gives English-language readers a long view of one of Turkish poetry’s major modern voices. A selected poems is not simply a sampler. At its best, it lets a reader witness a mind changing shape over decades, returning to obsessions, abandoning others, finding new formal weather. Berk’s work belongs to modern Turkish poetry’s experimental and restless energies, where the city, the body, history, image, and surreal attention keep remaking each other. Messo’s translations make the long arc available without asking the reader to become an expert first. Start with the images, the strangeness, the feeling that language is trying to outpace itself.
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Shearsman Books
- Language
- Turkish
- Country
- Turkey
- ISBN
- 9781848614611