Nazim Hikmet’s series of 32 free-verse poems addressed to his wife, Piraye, from Bursa Prison in Turkey in 1945 constitutes a significant contribution to the tradition of the love lyric as it powerfully synthesizes authentic expressions of love, longing, and… Read More ›
Nazim Hikmet’s five-book “epic novel in verse”—some 17,000 lines long—is a major work by Turkey’s most accomplished 20th-century poet. Memleketimden İnsan Manzaraları made a significant contribution to the traditions of the long poem and to the genre of verse committed… Read More ›