Poetry
Asu
Not translated into English
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca · 1955
Synopsis
A collection from 1955 in which, according to the dictionary of names of Turkish literature, the poet takes a personal path and attempts a largely abstract poetry, without giving up reason or meaning; in it he reinterprets man and wants to write “a kind of epic of humanity in an immortal chain of life”. Sevgül Türkmenoğlu notes in it the philosophical depth, the lyricism and a closed world of meaning, of which the poem “Sevgicek” gives an example. It is not known who or what Âsû is.
Context
The collection appeared in 1955, the date given by the Diyanet encyclopaedia and Sevgül Türkmenoğlu. For the poet Cemal Süreya, cited by the latter, it opens the author's “period of reason”. The dictionary of Ahmet Yesevi University notes that it can be compared with the Second New, from which it differs in its attachment to meaning. Attention has been drawn to the purified Turkish of the author, who gave a new dimension to contemporary Turkish literature.
Who it is for
A collection of poems in Turkish, in a pared-down and often abstract language; no French translation has been found.
Prizes and reception
Work of a poet crowned at Struga in 1974, and one of the books in which he attempts an abstract poetry.
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