Tag Archives: Turkey
Introducing Bilge Karasu
We’ve just encountered the fascinating Turkish modernist Bilge Karasu, in a new translation from City Lights of his 1971 novel A Long Day’s Evening. This remarkable book considers agonizing internal struggles of faith among eighth-century Byzantine monks through the refracted, internalized prose of Joyce and Proust, giving them startlingly raw existential urgency. Something soul-plumbing for […]
Writers: Bilge Kerasu
Turkey’s Melih Cevdet Anday
Atom translated by Sidney Wade and Efe Murad H My house has one room Inside it a lunatic turns and turns Electron Now here now on the other side of the moon Both here and behind the moon Nucleus I knocked on the door of a lighthouse A nutcase opened it Voice translated by […]
Writers: Efe Murad, Melih Cevdet Anday, Sidney Wade
Poems by Turkey’s Yahya Kemal
Evening Music translated by Sidney Wade and Yurdanur Salman In the antique gardens of Kandilli, As the evening settles, veil over veil, The aching pleasures of memory prevail. No one comes or watches from balconies. In the middle of a lonely road the breeze Is toying with the October leaves. The hours deeper and […]
Writers: Efe Murad, Sidney Wade, Yahya Kemal
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