Poetry
Güzelleme
Not translated into English
Oktay Rifat · 1945
Synopsis
A collection from 1945, whose title is the name of a genre of Turkish folk poetry, the song of praise. According to YKS Edebiyat, the poet, who at that point followed no doctrine, borrows the forms and manner of speech of this poetry. Turkedebiyati.org adds that, in these years, he tries out traditional forms and full or partial rhymes in order to carry on the folk tradition. The poems are not described one by one.
Context
The collection appeared in 1945, the year of another book by the author. Four years earlier, in May 1941, he had published with his two comrades the joint collection that launched the Garip movement. The present book returns to counted and rhymed forms drawn from the oral tradition, which YKS Edebiyat places in the period when the author no longer adheres to a school. In 1956 he would turn to a poetry of images, with a collection that the Küre encyclopedia regards as his entry into the Second New.
Who it is for
Short poems in Turkish, inspired by popular songs of praise; no French translation has been found.
Prizes and reception
A milestone on the path by which the author moved away from the programme of the Garip movement, according to YKS Edebiyat.
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