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Book SynopsisBirhan Keskin's (b. Kirklareli, Turkey, 1963) poetry is finely-honed and minimal and at the same time, powerfully visual, evocative and exact. Meaning and music overlap, lines dissolve, restart and repeat. Fluid and elusive, her poems inhabit a space between cognition and remembering, testimony and invention. This book selects work from six of Keskin's books, including her prize-winning collection Ba, and George Messo's outstanding translation enables us to appreciate to the full the work of this exceptional poet.
Table of ContentsSeries Editor's note , Translator's preface , Introduction , from Ba (2005) Torment, Melody, Fig, Dense Water, Africa, Rite of Ferah, Fan, Ankara, River View, Fjord, State of Affair, High Density, Sun - Star // from States of the Earth (2002), Phoenix, Fish, Mountain, Plain, Glacier, Lake, Sea, Desert, Fig, Door, Traveler // from 20 Polished Tablets (1999), Instrumental, Penguin, Pomegranate Dream, Leaf, Tranquility, Tunnel , Water, The Traveler's Black Suitcase, //from Winter of Murder (1996), Prayer, Honeydrop, Time, Winter of Murder, Cactus and Texas I & II & III, Cave Flower // from I May Return Unhappily (1994), & Silk & Love & Flame // from Crazy Lyrics (1991), Crazy Lyrics I, Crazy Lyrics II, Apollo I, Apollo II, Biography, Biographical notes /
