Poetry
Kendi Gök Kubbemiz
Not translated into English
Yahya Kemal Beyatlı · 1961
Synopsis
The collection opens with a section that gives it its title and that deals, according to turkedebiyati.org, with Turkish history and culture: it includes “Süleymâniye'de Bayram Sabahı”, a line of which provides the title, and poems on Üsküdar, İstinye or Fenerbahçe. The second part, “Yol Düşüncesi”, revolves around the rind, the figure of the bohemian in old verse, death and old age; the third, “Vuslat”, gathers love poems. The Küre notes in it nostalgia for the past, melancholy and love of Istanbul.
Context
The volume was published in Istanbul in 1961, by the Institut Yahya Kemal, according to the BnF. According to the Küre, Nihad Sami Banarlı had obtained from the poet that he give a large part of his unpublished work to the daily Hürriyet in 1956 and 1957, and was working with him to put it into book form; left on his own, he published from 1961 his verse and his writings in ten volumes. Turkedebiyati.org states that the texts had appeared in reviews and newspapers from 1921 to 1957, and that all of them, except “Ok”, follow the aruz, the quantitative metre of classical poetry.
Who it is for
Some eighty poems in Turkish, in classical metre; no French translation of the collection has been found.
Prizes and reception
A book that Turkish scholarship still studies: in 2012, Ebru Burcu Yılmaz examined in it space as the foundation of an identity.
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