A Brave New Quest (Paperback)

Talat Halman

ISBN 10: 0815608403 / ISBN 13: 9780815608400

Published by Syracuse University Press, New York, 2006

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Paperback. This book contains a representative selection of modern Turkish poems that conveys in faithful translations the full spectrum of Turkish emotions, humor, intellectual explorations, joys, and agonies. This anthology features a wide variety of poems about social justice, love, evocations of history, humanitarian concerns, and other themes. It contains stirring examples of the revolutionary romanticism of Nazim Hikmet; the passionate wisdom of Fazil Husnu Daglarca; the wry and captivating humor of Orhan Veli Kanik; the intellectual complexity of Oktay Rifat and Melih Cevdet Anday; the modern mythology of Ilhan Berk; the subtle brilliance of Behcet Necatigil; the rebellious spirit of the socialist realists; the lyric flow of the neoromantics; and the diverse explorations of younger poets. These poems are infused with their own unique flavors while speaking in an unmistakably universal style. Featuring a variety of poems about social justice, love, evocations of history, humanitarian concerns, and other themes, this anthology contains a representative selection of modern Turkish poems that convey in faithful translations, the full spectrum of Turkish emotions, humor, intellectual explorations, joys, and agonies. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Brave New Quest (Paperback)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815608403
• ISBN 13: 9780815608400
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

<i>A Brave New Quest </i>contains stirring examples of the revolutionary romanticism of Nazi m Hikmet; the passionate wisdom of Fazil Hüsnü Daglarca; the wry and captivating humor of Orhan Veli Kanik; the intellectual complexity of Oktay Rifat and Melih Cevdet Anday; the modern mythology of Ilhan Berk; the subtle brilliance of Behçet Necatigil; the rebellious spirit of the socialist realists; the lyric flow of the neoromantics; and the diverse explorations of younger poets. These poems are infused with their own unique flavors while speaking in an unmistakably universal style.

About the Author

<b>Talat S. Halman</b>, professor and chairman of the Department of Turkish Literature at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, is the author and editor of more than sixty books, including <i>Contemporary Turkish Literature and Living Poets of Turkey.</i> <b>Jayne L. Warner</b> is director of research at the Institute for Aegean Prehistory in New York.