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Loading... Poems of Nazim Hikmetby Nazim Hikmet, Mutlu Konuk Blasing (Translator), Randy Blasing (Translator)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I purchased this book after reading a letter written by Che Guevara in which he quotes a poem by Nazim Hikmet. This volume of selected poetry by the Turkish Marxist poet is full of emotion. Love, devotion, perseverance, defiance, longing, pride, loyalty. The pain of separation is displayed throughout the work. From his wife. From his country. A great contribution to world literature. Any lover of poetry should not pass this up. no reviews | add a review
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A centennial volume, with previously unavailable poems, by Turkey's greatest poet. Published in celebration of the poet's one hundredth birthday, this exciting edition of the poems of the Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963) collects work from his four previous selected volumes and adds more than twenty poems never before available in English. The Blasing/Konuk translations, acclaimed for the past quarter-century for their accuracy and grace, convey Hikmet's compassionate, accessible voice with the subtle music, innovative form, and emotional directness of the originals. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)894.3513Literature Literature of other languages Altaic, Finno-Ugric, Uralic and Dravidian languages Turkic languages Turkish Turkish poetry 1850–2000LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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(Living is no laughing matter:
you must live with great seriousness
like a squirrel, for example--
I mean, without looking for something beyond and above living
I mean living must be your whole life...)
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