This is poetry from Turkey.
Popular Turkish love lyrics & folk legends by Talât Sait Halman translated by Talat Halman is published by Syracuse University Press. This is a Book originally written in Turkish. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780815609209E12.
Popular Turkish love lyrics & folk legends, associated with Talât Sait Halman in the metadata, should be treated as an anthology-like collection rather than a single-author book. Its value is in carrying Turkish song, love lyric, and legend into English as a shared tradition. Folk materials always complicate authorship. They belong to voices, communities, repetitions, and transformations more than to one isolated literary self. A reader should come to this book for the movement between intimacy and inheritance: the beloved, the tale, the refrain, the communal memory that lets a lyric survive. For the translated poetry library, it widens the shelf beyond modern individual authorship and reminds us that poetry often begins in song before it becomes print.
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.
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