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Book SynopsisThis collection covers the broad vision of mankind's history with a story of an individual journey, in the course of which the poet explores the cosmic and the microcosm, the immensities of Time and Space, of becoming and Being. The poems came during a pilgrimage in south-western Anatolia. Matur has created a personalised iconography based on Islamic references and imagery, and she presenting complex ideas with a simplicity of expression that is perfectly mirrored in Ruth Christie's translation.
Table of ContentsIntroduction / 9 I /ADAM'S LONELINESS THE SEVEN NIGHTS The First Night / 17 The Second Night / 22, The Third Night / 33, The Fourth Night / 39, The Fifth Night / 47, The Sixth Night / 49, The Seventh Night / 55, II AND ANGELS PERCH ON HIS RIGHT SHOULDER And Angels Perch on His Right Shoulder / 71, III / THE FIRST CONVERSATION The First Conversation / 79, Saint of the Source / 85, The Saint's Darkening Roses / 87, Abraham's Lake / 91, Your Truth / 93, What Opens the Way Is Darkness / 95 , Arid Amazement / 97, Land of the Sun / 99, IV TIGER STRIPES Tiger Stripes / 105, Kinship of Gauze / 109, The Time of Skirts / 111, Your Night / 115 , The North Gate / 117, Signs / 121, Remembering / 123, What the Iris Knows / 125, When the Wheat Is Cut / 127, Being / 129, Peaceful Morning / 129, Untold / 131, Old / 133, Before the Name / 133, Tick Tock / 139, Abandoned / 139, Home / 141, Biographical Notes / 147
