Nightingales and Pleasure Gardens: Turkish Love Poems

The earliest turkish verses, dating from the sixth century A.D., were love lyrics. Since then, love has...
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Author: Talat S. Halman
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Nightingales and Pleasure Gardens: Turkish Love Poems by Halman, Talat S.

Nightingales and Pleasure Gardens: Turkish Love Poems

$207.05

Nightingales and Pleasure Gardens: Turkish Love Poems

$207.05
Author: Talat S. Halman
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The earliest turkish verses, dating from the sixth century A.D., were love lyrics. Since then, love has dominated the Turks' poetic modes and moods--pre-Islamic, Ottoman, classical, folk, modern. This collection covers
love lyrics from all periods of Turkish poetry. It is the first anthology of its kind in English. The translations, faithful to the originals, possess a special freshness in style and sensibility.

Here are lyrics from pre-Islamic Central Asia, passages from epics, mystical ecstasies of such eminent thirteenth-century figures as Rumi and Yunus Emre, classical poems of the Ottoman Empire (including S leyman the Magnificent and women court poets), lilting folk poems, and the work of the legendary communist Nazim Hikmet (who is arguably Turkey's most famous poet internationally), and the greatest living Turkish poet, Fazil H sn Daglarca.

The verses in this collection are true to the Turkish spirit as well as universal in their appeal. They show how Turks praise and satirize love, how they see it as a poetic experience. Poetry was for many centuries the premier Turkish genre and love its predominant theme. Some of the best expressions produced by Turkish poets over a period of fifteen centuries can be found in this volume.

Author: Talat S. Halman
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 07/05/2005
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.08h x 6.20w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9780815608356


Review Citation(s):
Multicultural Review 06/01/2006 pg. 69

About the Author

Talat S. Halman is a leading translator of Turkish literature. His books in English include Contemporary Turkish Literature, Modern Turkish Drama, Süleyman the Magnificent Poet, three volumes on Yunus Emre, Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi and the Whirling Dervishes (with Metin And), Shadows of Love (original poems in English), A Last Lullaby (English and Turkish poems), Living Poets of Turkey, Turkish Legends and Folk Poems, and many books featuring modern Turkish poets and playwrights.

Jayne L. Warner is director of research at the Institute for Aegean Prehistory in Greenwich, Connecticut. She is associate editor (with Talat S. Halman) of Sleeping in the Forest: Stories and Poems by Sait Faik.

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