Poetry
Boğulmayan bir ses
Not translated into English
Almas Yildirim · 1936
Synopsis
The book collects the poems its author had written up to 1936, three years after his flight from Soviet Azerbaijan: verses of love and of nostalgia for the lost homeland, born of a nationalist commitment that the Bolshevik invasion of 1920 had decided. The title means “a voice that has not drowned”.
Context
The collection appeared in Istanbul in 1936 at the city's Azerbaijani publishing house, Azerbaycan Neşriyat Yurdu, with a preface signed Alptekin, and was reissued in Baku in 2007. Its author also gave his poems to the magazines of the emigration and of Turkish nationalism, Qurtuluş, Çınaraltı or Kök Böri, and collected Azerbaijani songs and bayatı. A 2019 article on the Turkism of his poetry ranks him among the great figures of Azerbaijani literature in exile.
Who it is for
A slim collection in Turkish, with no translation; it helps to know the history of Azerbaijani emigration in the thirties.
Prizes and reception
The first book of its author's exile, it returned to Azerbaijan several decades after its publication and was put online in Turkey in 2019.