The sea within by Gonca Özmen and translated by George Messo

This is poetry from Turkey.

The sea within by Gonca Özmen translated by George Messo is published by Shearsman Books. This is a Book originally written in Turkish. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781848611481E12.

Gonca Özmen’s The sea within, translated from Turkish by George Messo, is a book I would describe through interior tide. The sea in a poem is rarely just scenery. It becomes pressure, distance, desire, exile, memory, or the body’s own ungovernable motion. Özmen’s title suggests a lyric self carrying its own weather, and the poems likely ask the reader to listen for how inward life becomes elemental. Published by Shearsman Books, this Turkish entry works well as an invitation to read for atmosphere before argument. One does not have to know exactly what every line “means” to feel the pull of it. Sometimes the poem’s work is simply to make the inner world audible.

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.

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