What have you carried over? by Gülten Akın Cankoçak and translated by Saliha Paker, Mel Kenne

This is poetry from Turkey.

What have you carried over? by Gülten Akın Cankoçak translated by Saliha Paker, Mel Kenne is published by Talisman House, Publishers. This is a Book originally written in Turkish. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781584980964E12.

What have you carried over?, by Gülten Akın Cankoçak, is a Turkish poetry collection from Turkey, translated by Saliha Paker, Mel Kenne, published by Talisman House, Publishers in 2014. It is a Turkish collection by Gülten Akın, whose question opens onto memory, womanhood, social inheritance, and survival. The book matters because it treats what is carried as both burden and gift, something passed through the body, the family, and the poem. 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.

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