How Abraham Abandoned Me - Couverture souple

Matur, Bejan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1906570000 ISBN 13 : 9781906570002

Editeur : Arc Publications, 2012

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation for Spring 2012.

Lean over a well
Lean over and feel Gabriel s wings
and your lack of wings.
See there
how words exist
how a human being flows into another.
Perhaps what opens the way is darkness.

(from What Opens the Way is Darkness )

This collection covers the broad vision of mankind s history with a story of an individual journey: a pilgrimage in south-western Anatolia. Filled with Islamic reference and imagery, Turkish poet Bejan Matur presents complex ideas about the immensity of time, space and the cosmos, with a simplicity of expression perfectly captured in Ruth Christie s translation.

Biographie de l'auteur

Bejan Matur has published four books of poetry, her first winning two major literary prizes. A translated selection of her poems, The Temple of a Patient God, was published by Arc Publications. Matur s poetry has been translated into 17 different languages.

Ruth Christie was born in Scotland. Her recent translation of Poems of Oktay Rifat with Richard McKane was a runner-up in for the Popescu Poetry Prize.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Arc Publications
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1906570000
• ISBN 13: 9781906570002
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 146