Poetry
Geceleyin Bir Koşu
Not translated into English
İsmet Özel · 1966
Synopsis
The author's first collection, which brings together, according to the daily Karar, the poems of his first period; Karar notes in it self-questioning, childhood memories and the struggle with one's own body. Ahmet Kaya, in his thesis, sees in it the figure of the father, often benevolent, mingled with the torments of adolescence and anguish before existence. The poems include “Ölü Asker İçin İlk Türkü” and “Bakmaklar”. The other pieces are not described one by one.
Context
The daily Karar notes that the author declared himself a socialist at the time of the journal founded in 1970, which defended a revolutionary art, and that his committed poems make up the following collection. After 1971, he called this choice into question; in 1974, he published “Amentü”, in which he affirms his faith, in Sezai Karakoç's journal. Ahmet Kaya reports that the 1970 journal was closed in September 1971, after the military coup of 12 March. The collection was reissued in 1994 by Oğlak, according to the BnF.
Who it is for
Early poems in Turkish, for those who want to read the author's beginnings; no French translation has been found.
Prizes and reception
The critic Eser Gürson held it in 1966 to be the most remarkable collection of his generation, according to Ahmet Kaya.
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