Poems of Nazim Hikmet (Revised, Expanded)

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ISBN-10: 0892552743
ISBN-13: 9780892552740
Publisher: Persea Books
Publish Date: 05/17/2002
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.30" W, 0.60" H

Poems of Nazim Hikmet (Revised, Expanded)

byNazim Hikmet
Translator: Randy Blasing
Translator: Mutlu Konuk Blasing
Foreword by: Carolyn Forché

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Price: $19.95

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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.

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Brilliantly conceived and executed, witty and passionate, and inspiring in a sense not found in most modern poems.– "Booklist"
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Details

ISBN-10: 0892552743
ISBN-13: 9780892552740
Publisher: Persea Books
Publish Date: 05/17/2002
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.30" W, 0.60" H
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