Nine Books of Poems

Mehmet Yaşın, whose first poem in Turkey was published in the Sanat Emeği magazine in 1979, attracted attention with his poems in the 1980s, especially in Yazko Kitap, Adam Sanat and Defter magazines; Although he was deemed worthy of the Academy Poetry Award and the A. Kadir Award, the important awards of the period, for his first poetry book, My Loved Dead Soldier, it was confiscated in 1986 as it was deemed objectionable. Mehmet Yaşın, who published a total of nine poetry books in thirty years, is one of the widely translated poets who are now known outside Turkey: His poems have been translated into more than 20 languages; In addition to Turkey, it was composed in England, Cyprus and the Netherlands; It was presented as a poetry-installation in France, Russia and Cyprus. Yaşın, who gradually turned from lyrical poems in which he used a simple language to a poetry blended with Mediterranean culture, attended literary conferences and poetry reading days in many countries from China to North and South America, from the Baltic countries to Italy, from Germany to Israel and Egypt. attended. The different voice that Yaşın brings to our poetry is based on hybrid literary sources; The Mediterranean blends Turkish, Greek and Levantine cultures; creating a lyricism that is dramatic, expressive and deepened with irony; to their unconventional themes and approaches; It is based on the use of Turkish in historical and geographical plural forms. While reading the books of Yaşın, who brings a completely different voice to today's poetry from overseas, we witness the transformation of a cosmopolitan life story that flourished in the soil of more than one country into an original poem.

The nine poetry books brought together in the book published by YKY under the name Nine Poetry Books 1975-2013 are: My Darling Dead Soldier (1984), Işık-Merdiven (1986), Pathos (1990), Sözverici Kolluğu (1993), Hayal Tamiri (1998). , His Name is on the List of the Missing (2002), Orange Bird (2007), When His Heart Stopped (2009), The Boy Who Ran Away from Home (2013).
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 672

Year of Printing: 2014


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Yapı Kredi Publications

Number of Pages: 672

First Print Year: 2014

Language Turkish