Poems of Nazim Hikmet

By: Nazim Hikmet, Randy Blasing, Mutlu Konuk Blasing

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Paperback | 1 February 2003 | Edition Number 2

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Published in celebration of the poet's one hundredth birthday, this exciting new edition of the poems of the Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963) collects work from his four previous selected volumes -- all from Persea, all now out of print -- and adds more than twenty poems never before available in English. The Blasing/Konuk translations, acclaimed for the past quarter-century for their accuracy and grace, convey Hikmet's compassionate, accessible voice with the subtle music, innovative form, and emotional directness of the originals.

Nazim Hikmet is considered Turkey's greatest modern poet. For his Communist views, he was imprisoned in Turkey and his work was banned. His poetry has been translated into more than fifty languages. He won the World Peace Prize (the USSR's equivalent of the Nobel) in 1950.

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"Brilliantly conceived and executed, witty and passionate, and inspiring in a sense not found in most modern poems." -- Booklist "One of the great poetic voices of all time." -- Multicultural Review

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Translators' Preface	p. viii
Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. xiii
About My Poetry	p. 3
Regarding Art	p. 4
Gioconda and Si-Ya-U	p. 6
A Spring Piece Left in the Middle	p. 32
On Shirts, Pants, Cloth Caps, and Felt Hats	p. 35
Letter to My Wife	p. 38
The Epic of Sheik Bedreddin	p. 40
Hymn to Life	p. 72
Letters from a Man in Solitary	p. 74
On Death Again	p. 78
Istanbul House of Detention	p. 80
Hello	p. 84
Letters from Chankiri Prison	p. 85
A Strange Feeling	p. 92
On the Twentieth Century	p. 94
Letter from My Wife	p. 95
9-10 P.M. Poems	p. 97
Ninth Anniversary	p. 113
Hazel Are My Lady's Eyes	p. 116
Rubaiyat	p. 117
Since I Was Thrown Inside	p. 123
I Love You	p. 126
On Ibrahim Balaban's Painting "Spring"	p. 127
About Mount Uludagh	p. 129
The Strangest Creature on Earth	p. 131
On Living	p. 132
It's This Way	p. 135
Angina Pectoris	p. 136
Occupation	p. 137
You're	p. 138
I Made a Journey	p. 139
About Your Hands and Lies	p. 141
Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison	p. 143
On the Matter of Romeo and Juliet	p. 145
Sadness	p. 146
On Ibrahim Balaban's Painting "The Prison Gates"	p. 147
After Getting Out of Prison	p. 149
You	p. 155
Last Will and Testament	p. 156
To Lydia Ivanna	p. 158
The Mailman	p. 160
Message	p. 162
About the Sea	p. 164
Last Letter to My Son	p. 166
Letter from Istanbul	p. 170
In the Snowy Night Woods	p. 176
New Year's Eve	p. 178
Elegy for Satan	p. 179
Faust's House	p. 181
Prague Dawn	p. 183
Noon in Prague	p. 184
Optimistic Prague	p. 186
To Samet Vurgun	p. 188
I Got a Letter from Munevver Saying	p. 189
I Wrote a Letter to Munevver Saying	p. 190
From Sofia	p. 191
Bor Hotel	p. 193
The Balcony	p. 194
The Last Bus	p. 195
This Thing Called Prague	p. 197
Some Memories	p. 199
Optimism	p. 204
Thirty Years Ago	p. 205
A Fable of Fables	p. 208
Bach's Concerto No. 1 in C Minor	p. 210
Conversation with Dead Nezval	p. 212
Elegy for Mikhail Refili	p. 214
Early Fall	p. 216
The Bees	p. 217
Windows	p. 218
The Old Man on the Shore	p. 221
The Optimist	p. 223
Because	p. 224
This Journey	p. 225
The Icebreaker	p. 226
Two Loves	p. 227
Waitress	p. 229
To Vera	p. 230
Early Light	p. 231
Baku at Night	p. 233
The Cucumber	p. 234
My Woman	p. 235
Vera Waking	p. 236
Separation	p. 237
Loving You	p. 238
Because of You	p. 239
Suddenly	p. 240
Six O'Clock	p. 241
About Us	p. 242
Straw-Blond	p. 243
Untitled	p. 256
Falling Leaves	p. 257
Welcome	p. 258
Autobiography	p. 259
Things I Didn't Know I Loved	p. 261
I Stepped Out of My Thoughts of Death	p. 265
I'm Getting Used to Growing Old	p. 266
Berlin Letters	p. 267
My Funeral	p. 269
Vera	p. 270
Notes	p. 271
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