The Turkish Blue

Cahit Külebi played a key role in the emergenceof modern Turkish poetry in the 1940s.His poetry represents a contemporaryinterpretationofthefolktradition.However, while he wrote in the vernacular, hedid not consider himself a folk poet. The dailyordealsandpainofordinarypeople, and thebeautiful but unforgiving natute are at thecenterof his poetry, with some of hisfinestverse on loveforwomen. His laterpoemsdemonsîrate a sîrong social conscience.Humor can also be found in his poetry.Külebi won several literary awards, and his poems were translated intotwenty languages.However, this is the first collection in English.Cahit Külebi whowasborn in 1917 in a centrai Anatolian villagedied in 1997.