Poetry
Bakış Kuşu
Not translated into English
Hilmi Yavuz · 1969
Synopsis
The author's first collection, published in 1969 according to the Küre and the Iztok-Zapad site, which renders the title as “The Glance Bird”. According to turkedebiyati.org, the poet's beginnings were made under the influence of the İkinci Yeni movement, with poems dominated by the image. The poems in this book are not described one by one, and it is not known whether this judgement on his beginnings applies to it in particular.
Context
The collection appeared in 1969, the year the author left British radio, according to the Küre. Turkedebiyati.org ranks him among the poets who emerged after 1960 and move away from the poetics of the Garip movement and draw on Sufism, and notes that his later work combines a taste for tradition with a contemporary outlook. A selection of his verse appeared in English in 2007 under the title Seasons of the Word, in Walter G. Andrews's translation, the author's first publication in that language according to his publisher.
Who it is for
Short poems in Turkish; no French translation has been found, and only a selection of the work exists in English.
Prizes and reception
The first title of a body of poetry distinguished in 1978 by the Yeditepe Prize and in 1987 by the Sedat Simavi Prize.
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