Book record
Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds
Seyhan Erözçelik
Translated from Turkish by Murat Nemet-Nejat
Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds, by Seyhan Erözçelik, is a Turkish poetry collection from Turkey, translated by Murat Nemet-Nejat, published by Talisman House, Publishers in 2010. It is a Turkish collection whose title already mixes tenderness, abrasion, domestic residue, and sudden impact. Erözçelik's poems feel interested in the charged leftovers of daily life, where coffee, roses, city, memory, and language leave grounds behind. 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.
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Talisman House Publishers
- Language
- Turkish
- Country
- Turkey
- ISBN
- 9781584980735