The complete poems by Orhan Veli Kanık and translated by George Messo

This is poetry from Turkey.

The complete poems by Orhan Veli Kanık translated by George Messo is published by Shearsman Books. This is a Book originally written in Turkish. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781848614376E12.

The complete poems, by Orhan Veli Kanık, is a Turkish poetry collection from Turkey, translated by George Messo, published by Shearsman Books in 2016. It is a Turkish collection by Orhan Veli Kanık, a central figure in bringing ordinary speech and everyday life into modern Turkish poetry. The book is useful because it reminds readers that simplicity can be radical when a literary tradition has been trained to expect ornament. 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.

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.