Poetry
Körfez
Not translated into English
Sezai Karakoç · 1959
Synopsis
The author's first book of poems, published in 1959 and reissued in 1974 in a volume that also brings together two subsequent collections. According to an article published by the Turkish Language Institution, it harbours a hidden book, that of “Monna Rosa”, whose theme is love: separation, impossible reunion, death and solitude, with the rose, the mirror, the pen and the bed as images. The poems are not described one by one.
Context
According to turkedebiyati.org, his first poems, published in Pazar Postası, followed the current known as İkinci Yeni, the Second New, before he turned to a mystical poetry of Islamic inspiration, made of formal experiments and personal images. The Küre places him in this current while stressing that he kept the tradition: where most of its members broke with it, he took up its forms and themes, and reworked in a modern language the images of court poetry and Sufi poetry. Rıza Duru sees in this first book the form that decided how he expressed his thought in the rest of his work.
Who it is for
Poems in Turkish, in a modern language nourished by ancient images; no French translation has been found.
Prizes and reception
The first collection of a poet who received the Presidential Grand Prize for Culture and Arts in 2011, according to an official bibliography.
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