bir tabanca kabzası gibi iner enseme her gün
sert soğuk acılı temasıyla muteber yetimlik
mezar taşı yok diye resmiyet kazanamamış
gayri resmi acılar musallat eden ebeveynlik
serde yıkımını bekleyen çıplak bina sükûneti
kapısı penceresi yok fakat yumrukları kurulu
tad alma duyusu elinden alınmış bir gençlik
yapma çiçeklere su vermek her umut ediş
August’s works are now live and can be found below and throughout the postings on the English homepage! As İlkyaz, we work to introduce three young writers every month. We translate these works, which are be made up of a short stories or poems, into English and endeavour to introduce them to readers outside of Turkey. …
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel of Russia in the Napoleonic wars, has for some time borne the unfortunate, if mildly humorous, cultural role as the ultimate unread doorstop. (At least before David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest or Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle.) The daunting length and complexity of its narrative can seem uniquely forbidding, though it’s …
