Nightingales and Pleasure Gardens
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Nightingales and Pleasure Gardens by Talat Halman
The earliest Turkish verses, dating from the sixth century A.D., were love lyrics. Since the love has dominated the Turks' poetic modes and moods - pre-Islamic, Ottoman classic, folk, modern. In style, form and sensibility, this collection offers a broad spectrum: virtual all types and varieties are represented here. The English versions are loyal to the originals and strive to be authentic poems in English. Here are lyrics from pre-Islamic Central Asia, passages from epics, mystical ecstasies of such thirteenth-century figures as Rumi and Yunus Emre, classical poems of the Ottoman Empire (including Suleyman the Magnificent and women courtly poets), lilting folk poems and the work of the legendary communist Nazim Hikmet (who is arguably Turkey's most famous poet internationally) and the greatest living Turkish poet, Fazil Husnu Daglarca. The verses in this collection are true to the Turkish spirit as well as universal in the appeal. They show how Turks praise and satirize love, how they see it as a poetic experience Poetry was for many centuries the premier Turkish genre and love its predominant them Some of the best expressions of that happy coalescence can be found in this volume.
Jayne L. Warner is director of research at the Institute for Aegean Prehistory in Greenwich, CT. She holds a B.A. in classics, an M.A. in ancient history, and, from Bryn Mawr College, a Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Anatolian archaeology. Her publications include Elmal -Karata II: The Early Bronze Age Village of Karata . Warner has served as assistant editor for the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and executive director of the Poetry Society of America (New York). She has also served as director of the American Turkish Society (New York) and director of the New York Office of the Board of Trustees of Robert College of Istanbul. Warner is Associate Editor of Sleeping in the Forest: Stories and Poems by Sait Faik; Nightingales and Pleasure Gardens: Turkish Love Poems; A Brave New Quest: 100 Modern Turkish Poems; and Popular Turkish Love Lyrics and Folk Legends, and co-editor of An Anthology of Modern Turkish Drama. She is the editor of Cultural Horizons: A Festschrift in Honor of Talat S. Halman; The Turkish Muse: Views and Reviews, 1960s-1990s; Rapture and Revolution: Essays on Turkish Literature; and A Millennium of Turkish Literature: A Concise History.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780815608356 |
| ISBN 10 | 0815608357 |
| Title | Nightingales and Pleasure Gardens |
| Author | Talat Halman |
| Series | Middle East Literature In Translation |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Syracuse University Press |
| Year published | 2005-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 159 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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