Poetry
Deyişler
Not translated into English
Âşık Veysel · 1944
Synopsis
The author's first book, published in 1944 under the title “Âşık Veysel'den Deyişler” by the headquarters of the People's Houses. The poems it contains are not described. Commentators note in it the earth, the path of life, death, love and the mother, the fleetingness of the world, and the poem in which the black earth becomes a faithful beloved.
Context
The poet Ahmet Kutsi Tecer helped, according to turkedebiyati.org, to make the author known throughout the country. The latter was then teaching at the village institutes, at Hasanoğlan in 1943 and 1944 according to the official site, and the Küre cites six of these schools. Two other collections followed, in 1949 or 1950 and then in 1970, and all his poems appeared in 1984. His poetry was learned by listening, and its language remains clear to everyone, according to the same site.
Who it is for
Short poems in Turkish, with no French translation; the author used to sing them to the saz, and recordings exist.
Prizes and reception
Turkedebiyati.org regards his art as sober and almost flawless; “Uzun İnce Bir Yoldayım” is counted among his best-known poems.
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