A Brave New Quest

A Brave New Quest: 100 Modern Turkish Poems is a selection of modern Turkish poetry that conveys in faithful translations the full spectrum of Turkish humor, intellectual exploration, love, politics, and social justice. It contains stirring selections representing the revolutionary romanticism of Nazim Hikmet and the passionate wisdom of Fazil Husnu Daglarca-as well as the rebellious spirit of the social realists and the diversity of many of the young poets.

Preface

xi

Note on Turkish Spelling

xv

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpmar

Fear

3

(1)

Awakening

4

(1)

Nairn Hikmet

Today Is Sunday

5

(1)

Silence

6

(9)

From: The Epic of the War of Liberation

8

(2)

From: The Epic of Sheikh Bedreddin

10

(5)

Quatrains

15

(2)

About Living

17

(3)

[untitled]

20

(1)

No Tree Has Ever Given Such Marvelous Fruit

21

(1)

Necip Fazil Kisakürek

Anguish

22

(5)

Asaf Halet Çelebi

Abraham

27

(1)

Ahmet Muhip Diranas

Two Solitary Trees

28

(1)

Cahit Sitki Taranci

Poem at Thirty-Five

29

(2)

After Death

31

(1)

Terror

32

(1)

Bedri Rahmi Eyuboglu

The Saga of Istanbul

33

(7)

Fazil Hüsnü Daglarca

From: The Epic of Çakir

40

(1)

In Passage

41

(1)

Ugly

42

(6)

From: The Epic of the Conquest of Istanbul

45

(3)

Stone Inscription

48

(1)

To the Public Prosecutor

49

(1)

Quatrains

50

(1)

Beacon

51

(2)

Audience

53

(1)

A Corpse Turns Cold

54

(2)

My Translators

56

(1)

Night of the Amnesty

57

(2)

Imperial Command

59

(1)

Endless Silence

60

(1)

Return

61

(1)

Orhan Veli Kanik

I Am Listening to Istanbul

62

(2)

For You

64

(1)

This World

65

(1)

Living

66

(1)

Exodus

67

(1)

For Our Homeland

68

(1)

Just for the Hell of It

69

(1)

Oklay Rifat

The Flute

70

(1)

A Formidable Gypsy

71

(1)

Melih Cevdet Anday

On the Nomad Sea

72

(6)

Startling Encounter

78

(1)

The Flower of Darkness

79

(1)

Are We Going To Live Without Aging?

80

(1)

Vertigo

81

(1)

Copper Age

82

(2)

The Battle of Kadesh

84

(3)

From: Odysseus Bound

85

(2)

Behçet Necatigil

Time of Death

87

(1)

Limit

88

(1)

Dark Dominion

89

(1)

Cahit Külebi

A Story of the Sea

90

(1)

Ilhan Berk

Dead

91

(2)

For Homer

93

(1)

Ceyhun Atuf Kansu

The Critics

94

(2)

The Daily Rose

96

(1)

Salâh Birsel

Geography Lesson

97

(2)

Sabahattin Kudret Aksal

Old Night

99

(1)

Necati Cumah

Mozart's Birds

100

(1)

Özdemir Asaf

Aphorisms

101

(1)

Attilâ Ilhan

Ancient Sea Folk

102

(3)

The Dead Have Grown Old

105

(1)

Captain

106

(2)

Another Man

108

(3)

Can Kücel

History Lesson at the Flea Market

111

(3)

Ümit Yasar Oguzcan

The Left Ear of the Grand Vizier

114

(1)

Nüzhet Erman

The Big Tale

115

(1)

Turgut Uyar

And Came the Tailors

116

(4)

Deer Night

120

(3)

Metin Eloglu

Rasp

123

(1)

Edip Cansever

Vanish

124

(2)

Bedouin

126

(1)

Crab

127

(3)

Talat S. Halman

The Desolate Locust

130

(7)

Cemal Süreya

Blood Lurks Under All Words

137

(2)

Just at These Hours

139

(2)

Ece Ayhan

Monument of the Unknown Student

141

(2)

Kindertotenlieder

142

(1)

The Voice of Poetry by the Seashore

143

(1)

Gülten Akin

Rain

144

(1)

Ahmet Oktay

All Men Die

145

(3)

Kemal Özer

All the King's Men

148

(1)

Like a Flame

149

(1)

The Tuft

150

(1)

Hilmi Yavuz

now for whatever reason

151

(1)

Özdemir Ince

In Praise of My Father

152

(1)

Our Sons

153

(2)

Ferit Edgü

From: Lecture Notes

155

(2)

Ülkü Tamer

Tower The Dagger

157

(1)

Sunday in the Meadows

158

(1)

Responses for Poetry

159

(3)

Turgay Gönenç

Unexpected Sights

162

(1)

Cahit Zarifoglu

Toward Freedom

163

(3)

Ataol Behramoglu

Some Day for Sure

166

(3)

Sennur Sezer

To Stay Out of the Fight

169

(1)

Ismet Özel

A Shroud for My Darling

170

(2)

Enis Batur

Lot's Woman

172

(1)

Murathan Mungan

Last Swans

173

(1)

Ahmet Erhan

Waiting Beside a Friend's Coffin

174

(3)

Biographical Notes

177

(10)

About the Editors

187

(2)

Acknowledgments

189

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