Edip Cansever, Dirty August
translated by Julia Clare Tillinghast and Richard Tillinghast
ISBN 13: 978-1-58498-067-4, paper, $14.95
Edip Cansever (1928-1986) was one of a group of poets known as İkinci Yeni, or “Second New,” the second wave of Turkish poets to embrace Modernism. Like Orhan Pamuk, Cansever was secular in outlook, looking to Europe for literary examples while at the same time deeply engaged with the struggles of people in his own country and grounded in the life of his native city, Istanbul. Philosophically attuned to Existentialism, his poetry has an exuberance and imaginative range that will remind readers of the French Surrealists.
Julia Clare Tillinghast-Akalin’s poems and translations have appeared in Boston Review, crazyhorse, Irish Pages, Northern Passages, Sou’Wester and elsewhere. A graduate of the undergraduate writing program at Sarah Lawrence College, she is currently an MFA candidate in the Creative Writing program at Virginia Tech University. Born in San Francisco, raised in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, she lived, worked, and studied Turkish in Istanbul, Turkey, from 2004-2008 and now lives in Blacksburg, Virginia, with her husband Sehmuz and their son Hamza.
Richard Tillinghast is the author of ten books of poetry — most recently The New Life, 2008, from Copper Beech Press, and Selected Poems, 2009, from Dedalus Press in Ireland. His books of non-fiction include Finding Ireland: a Poet’s Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture and Robert Lowell’s Life and Work: Damaged Grandeur, a critical memoir. He has received grants from the Amy Lowell Trust, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Research Institute in Turkey, and the Irish Arts Council.
The translators' "English versions are lively, beautifully colloquial, and compelling. This is a wonderful achievement." --Sidney Wade, American Book Review
ISBN 13: 978-1-58498-067-4, paper, $14.95
Edip Cansever (1928-1986) was one of a group of poets known as İkinci Yeni, or “Second New,” the second wave of Turkish poets to embrace Modernism. Like Orhan Pamuk, Cansever was secular in outlook, looking to Europe for literary examples while at the same time deeply engaged with the struggles of people in his own country and grounded in the life of his native city, Istanbul. Philosophically attuned to Existentialism, his poetry has an exuberance and imaginative range that will remind readers of the French Surrealists.
Julia Clare Tillinghast-Akalin’s poems and translations have appeared in Boston Review, crazyhorse, Irish Pages, Northern Passages, Sou’Wester and elsewhere. A graduate of the undergraduate writing program at Sarah Lawrence College, she is currently an MFA candidate in the Creative Writing program at Virginia Tech University. Born in San Francisco, raised in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, she lived, worked, and studied Turkish in Istanbul, Turkey, from 2004-2008 and now lives in Blacksburg, Virginia, with her husband Sehmuz and their son Hamza.
Richard Tillinghast is the author of ten books of poetry — most recently The New Life, 2008, from Copper Beech Press, and Selected Poems, 2009, from Dedalus Press in Ireland. His books of non-fiction include Finding Ireland: a Poet’s Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture and Robert Lowell’s Life and Work: Damaged Grandeur, a critical memoir. He has received grants from the Amy Lowell Trust, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Research Institute in Turkey, and the Irish Arts Council.
The translators' "English versions are lively, beautifully colloquial, and compelling. This is a wonderful achievement." --Sidney Wade, American Book Review