Nâzım Hikmet
Subtitle: the life and times of Turkey's world poet
By: Mutlu Konuk Blasing
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Persea
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780892554171
Subjects: Turkish Poets; Biography
Description: Details the Turkish poet's early life as one of the Ottoman elite to his embrace of Communism that led to his spending most of his adult life in prison or exile.
Notes: "A Karen & Michael Braziller book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "My nineteenth year"; title: pt. 1. At large : the making of a poet (1902-1938); title: pt. 2. In deep : prison (1938-1950); title: pt. 3. Out far : exile (1950-1963).