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. Preface xi Note on Turkish Spelling xv Ahmet Hamdi Tanpmar Fear 3(1) Awakening 4(1) Nairn Hikmet Today Is Sunday 5(1) Silence 6(9) From: The Epic of the War of Liberation 8(2) From: The Epic of Sheikh Bedreddin 10(5) Quatrains 15(2) About Living 17(3) [untitled] 20(1) No Tree Has Ever Given Such Marvelous Fruit 21(1) Necip Fazil Kisakürek Anguish 22(5) Asaf Halet Çelebi Abraham 27(1) Ahmet Muhip Diranas Two Solitary Trees 28(1) Cahit Sitki Taranci Poem at Thirty-Five 29(2) After Death 31(1) Terror 32(1) Bedri Rahmi Eyuboglu The Saga of Istanbul 33(7) Fazil Hüsnü Daglarca From: The Epic of Çakir 40(1) In Passage 41(1) Ugly 42(6) From: The Epic of the Conquest of Istanbul 45(3) Stone Inscription 48(1) To the Public Prosecutor 49(1) Quatrains 50(1) Beacon 51(2) Audience 53(1) A Corpse Turns Cold 54(2) My Translators 56(1) Night of the Amnesty 57(2) Imperial Command 59(1) Endless Silence 60(1) Return 61(1) Orhan Veli Kanik I Am Listening to Istanbul 62(2) For You 64(1) This World 65(1) Living 66(1) Exodus 67(1) For Our Homeland 68(1) Just for the Hell of It 69(1) Oklay Rifat The Flute 70(1) A Formidable Gypsy 71(1) Melih Cevdet Anday On the Nomad Sea 72(6) Startling Encounter 78(1) The Flower of Darkness 79(1) Are We Going To Live Without Aging? 80(1) Vertigo 81(1) Copper Age 82(2) The Battle of Kadesh 84(3) From: Odysseus Bound 85(2) Behçet Necatigil Time of Death 87(1) Limit 88(1) Dark Dominion 89(1) Cahit Külebi A Story of the Sea 90(1) Ilhan Berk Dead 91(2) For Homer 93(1) Ceyhun Atuf Kansu The Critics 94(2) The Daily Rose 96(1) Salâh Birsel Geography Lesson 97(2) Sabahattin Kudret Aksal Old Night 99(1) Necati Cumah Mozart's Birds 100(1) Özdemir Asaf Aphorisms 101(1) Attilâ Ilhan Ancient Sea Folk 102(3) The Dead Have Grown Old 105(1) Captain 106(2) Another Man 108(3) Can Kücel History Lesson at the Flea Market 111(3) Ümit Yasar Oguzcan The Left Ear of the Grand Vizier 114(1) Nüzhet Erman The Big Tale 115(1) Turgut Uyar And Came the Tailors 116(4) Deer Night 120(3) Metin Eloglu Rasp 123(1) Edip Cansever Vanish 124(2) Bedouin 126(1) Crab 127(3) Talat S. Halman The Desolate Locust 130(7) Cemal Süreya Blood Lurks Under All Words 137(2) Just at These Hours 139(2) Ece Ayhan Monument of the Unknown Student 141(2) Kindertotenlieder 142(1) The Voice of Poetry by the Seashore 143(1) Gülten Akin Rain 144(1) Ahmet Oktay All Men Die 145(3) Kemal Özer All the King's Men 148(1) Like a Flame 149(1) The Tuft 150(1) Hilmi Yavuz now for whatever reason 151(1) Özdemir Ince In Praise of My Father 152(1) Our Sons 153(2) Ferit Edgü From: Lecture Notes 155(2) Ülkü Tamer Tower The Dagger 157(1) Sunday in the Meadows 158(1) Responses for Poetry 159(3) Turgay Gönenç Unexpected Sights 162(1) Cahit Zarifoglu Toward Freedom 163(3) Ataol Behramoglu Some Day for Sure 166(3) Sennur Sezer To Stay Out of the Fight 169(1) Ismet Özel A Shroud for My Darling 170(2) Enis Batur Lot's Woman 172(1) Murathan Mungan Last Swans 173(1) Ahmet Erhan Waiting Beside a Friend's Coffin 174(3) Biographical Notes 177(10) About the Editors 187(2) Acknowledgments 189