Edip Cansever

The news from Turkey

by Keith Taylor

posted 5/27/2010

"It is difficult to get the news from poems," William Carlos Williams wrote, rather famously. Still, there are many experiences and parts of the world I know, however inexactly, only from learning about them in books, often in poetry. Take Turkey, for example. I've read novels by Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, a couple of histories, and the poems, in translation of

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