In the Wake of the Day

Istanbula place that is both exotic and familiar, spanning west and east, past and presentis fully explored in this collection of poetry that sketches out its many faces. Memories, cultures, and histories intersect in these poems that arch from imaginings of contemporary Turkey and trace back along a journey to Antioch. With characteristic playfulness, sophistication, and savage wit, this sojourn delves into what it means to be a part of a culture and to celebrate what is loved and ultimately unknowable.

John Ash is a poet, a translator, and a writer. His poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, the New Yorker, Oasis, the Paris Review, PN Review, and the Village Voice. He is the author of several books, including The Branching Stairs, A Byzantine Journey, Disbelief, The Parthian Stations, To the City, and Turkey: The Other Guide.

The Women of Kars
The Couple	p. 9
Olives	p. 10
Unasked For	p. 11
Finding Prostanna	p. 13
In Jean Dubuffet's Crimson Landscape	p. 15
Babylon	p. 17
Tristia	p. 18
Near the Euphrates	p. 19
Impossible	p. 20
Poem: 'I never really wanted...'	p. 22
Lines Written in a Hotel Room in Afyon	p. 23
The Cut	p. 25
Tramway	p. 27
Partial Explanation	p. 29
Practical Criticism	p. 30
Difficult	p. 32
The Towel of Alyattes	p. 33
The Result	p. 34
The Women of Kars (or Some Other Places I Know and Do Not Know)	p. 36
After Cavafy
Without Memorial	p. 45
Fever of Kleitos	p. 46
The Battle of Magnesia	p. 48
Antiochus Epiphanes	p. 50
The Gods in their Wisdom	p. 51
In Ösroene	p. 53
Disillusionment of Demetrius Soter	p. 54
The Triumph of John Kantakouzenos	p. 56
Exiles	p. 58
A Byzantine Nobleman Writing in Exile	p. 59
In a Syrian Harbour	p. 60
The Bergamot Tree
Pinara	p. 63
In the Wake of the Day	p. 64
Finding Prostanna (2)	p. 66
Two Poems with an Uncritical Apparatus	p. 68
Stations	p. 72
Prose for Ebubekir Akbulut	p. 76
The Antiochiad	p. 80
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