An anthology of Turkish literature
By: compiled and edited by Kemal Silay.
Contributors: Sılay, Kemal, 1964-
Publisher: Cem Publishing
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bloomington, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 648
ISBN-13: 9780978626204
Subjects: Turkish literature -- Translations into English; Turkish literature -- History and criticism; Turkish poetry -- Translations into English; Romances, Turkish -- Translations into English; Authors, Turkish -- Biography
Genres: Translations into English.; Biography.
Notes: "First published by the Indiana University Turkish Studies Series, 1996."--T.p. verso.

Includes brief biographies of authors.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 631-648).
Table of contents: title: Orkhon inscriptions. The Kül Tigin Inscription; title: Turkic Manichean Poetry / Larry Clark; title: From Kutaḍġu Bilig / Yūsuf Khāṣṣ Ḥāji̇b; title: Language reform in Turkey / Agop Di̇laçar; title: Selected poems of Yunus Emre / Yunus Emre; title: Yunus Emre / Annemarie Schimmel; title: The book of Dede Korkut. Prologue. The story of Delü Dumrul, Son of Duha Koja. The story of Basat, killer of the one-eyed giant; title: Selected Nasreddin Hoca stories; title: My picture, my darling, my friend / Nesi̇mi̇; title: History of the Ottomans and their campaigns against the infidel / Ahmedi̇; title: Woman, they say, is deficient in sense. I opened my eyes from sleep / Mi̇hri̇ Hatun; title: My purpose is to obey God's command to wage Jihad / Sultan Muhammed the Conqueror; title: The romance of Âşik Gari̇p and Shah Sanem: a Turkish Hikâye told by Müdami; title: The structure of Turkish romances / İlhan Başgöz; title: From "The donkey story" / Şeyhi̇; title: Beware the lovers' sighs / Necati̇; title: The rose-stem rouses no passion / Sultan Cem; title: The time of spring has suffered. What are these smiles, these wiles, this coquetry and this disdain / Baki̇; title: Though your heart is torn / Ahi̇; title: The tale of MeʼAli, magistrate of Mihaliç / ʻÄşik Çelebi̇; title: From the "Elegy to the cat" / Meʻali; title: Scribe, write the Shah about my plight. I asked the yellow crocus / Pi̇r Sultan Abdal; title: Heedless friend, ruthless fate, restless time. Let none be downcast and afflicted as I am, O God. You have shot me so full of arrows. The arrows of your lashes / Fuzuli̇; title: Greetings from me to the Bey of Bolu. The Beys of our lands / Köroğlu / From "Poetry's voice, society's song: Ottoman lyric poetry" / Walter G. Andrews; title: I am the sultan of love. My very own queen, my everything. All of a sudden, my glance fell upon her / Süleyman the Magnificent; title: Lift up the veil of ignorance. Love is the very person of God. God is in you. Be a slave to the king of love / Sunʻullah Gaybi̇; title: Originality and Ottoman poetics: in the wilderness of the new / Victoria Rowe Holbrook; title: Advice / Nabi̇; title: A young girl took me to the garden. Let's go to the land of sweet pleasure. My crazy heart, don't pine for yourself. As they fill water jugs at dawn. I went up to the wild, high places. The good tree grows out from its core. Come, brothers, let's stroll / Karacaoğlan; title: From the "Book of travels": The girl who gave birth to an elephant / Evli̇ya Çelebi̇; title: Nedim to his heart. We understand the purpose of that glance. The time for festivity has come. Nowhere in this city. Your merciless blue eye. My beloved cypress. From the "Ḥammāmiyye" / Nedi̇m; title: The Ḳaṣīde on poetry / Sünbülzade Vehbi̇; title: On the typology and method of research into Mediaeval Turkish poetry / Elizbar Javelidze; title: From the "Ḫūbānnāme (The book of beautiful men)". From the "Zenānnāme (The book of women)" / Enderuni̇ Fazil; title: In the garden. The beloved / Fi̇tnat Hanim; title: The rose a flame. You are my Lord. If I say that the skies have opened, the spring has come / Şeyth Gali̇b; title: I toured the lands of unbelief. From "Terkīb-i̇ Bend". Song / Zi̇ya Paşa; title: The wedding of a poet: a one-act comedy / İbrahi̇m Şi̇nasi̇; title: Let us truly renounce all hope and desire. Gravedigger. The freeom Kaside / Namik Kemal; title: The greatest poet. The high seat of contemplation / Abdülhak Hâmi̇d Tarhan; title: These are the places. Cry of longing. Joyless. Nejad my son / Recai̇zade Mahmud Ekrem; title: I am a poet, my thoughts are free. Haluk's credo. The fisherman. Plunderfest / Tevfi̇k Fi̇kret; title: Wintersong / Cenab Şahabeddi̇n; title: Seyfi̇ Baba. From "For the martyrs at the Dardanelles" / Mehmed Aki̇f Ersoy; title: Pool. Darkenss. Envoi. Staircase. Dawn / Ahmed Haşi̇m; title: The secret temple. Butt /  Ömer Seyfeddi̇n; title: Social environment and literature: the reflection of the young Turk era (1908-1918) in the literary work of Ömer Seyfeddin (1884-1920) / Kehmal H. Karpat; title: In the Mâhûr mode. Song. Life. Gazel to Gedik Ahmed Paşa. The death of Hafiz. The spring of love. Night. Voice. Gazel. The open sea. The song of Mohacs. Itri / Yahya Kemal Beyatli; title: The joke / Refi̇k Hali̇t Karay; title: From "The man in search of water" / Şevket Süreyya Aydemi̇r; title: Oh Ali! / Âsi̇k Ali̇ İzzet Özkan; title: Let friends remember me / Âşik Veysel Şatirog̈lu; title: From "Bilmece: a corpus of Turkish riddles; title: The shepherds of Bingöl / Kemaletti̇̇n Kamu; title: Autobiography. Provocateur. Weeping Wilow. Like Kerem. You are the field. On victory. Rubai. You. On the fifth day of a hunger strike. After release from prison. Since I've been in jail. Ode to life. My funeral. The epic of Sheik Bedreddin. The faces of our women. Poems for Piraye (9 to 10 o'clock poems) / Nazim Hi̇kmet; title: From "Five cities". From "The clock-setting institute". Morning. Memory. I am neither in time / Ahmet Hamdi̇ Tanpinar; title: To a migrant farmworker. Rain-rimmed horizons. All too clear / Ahmet Kutsi̇ Tecer; title: Curtains. The corpse's room. Sidewalks. The dead. Hotel rooms / Neci̇p Fazil Kisakürek; title: A dot on the map. The man who doesn't know what a tooth or a toothache is / Sai̇t Fai̇k Abasiyanik; title: Fiction of a Flâneur: Sait Faik / Talât Sai̇t Halman.; title: The superintendent. The feminist / Memduh Şevket Esendal; title: From "Ward 72" / Orhan kemal; title: The people awaken. How was Fil Hamdi caught? From "Istanbul boy: the autobiography of Aziz Nesin": My father. Sex education. War with the Greeks. Respect for paper. Puberty / Azi̇z Nesi̇n; title: Yellow heat / Yaşar Kemal; title: Liminality, ritual and social performance: Yashar Kemal's legend of the Karachullu Yürüks and the "problems" of nomadic entity in Anatolia / Kemal Silay; title: Yaşar Kemal and Turkish folk literature /  İlhan Başgöz; title: I had a map. I want a country. After death / Cahi̇t Sitki Taranci; title: I listen to Istanbul. Words. Free. Fine days. Tail-song. Reply. Bell-song. For the Fatherland / Orhan Veli̇ Kanik; title: Boys. Thanksgiving. Self revelation. To my wife / Oktay Ri̇fat; title: Corpse. Endless silence. Status report. Worldwide / Fazil Hüsnü Dağlarca; title: The saga of Istanbul / Bedri̇ Rahmi̇ Eyuboğlu; title: Winter net bag.  Nature. Abdal. Secret love  / Behçet Necati̇gi̇l; title: Song. During the war / Cahi̇t Külebi̇; title: Hang in there, don't give in. In our streets too. On my eyes and head / Enver Gökçe; title: Sun fanatic. A fear among fears / Necati̇ Cumali; title: The snow Kaside. The Hell Kaside / Atti̇lā İlhan; title: Pins. Poem 26. Shakespeare in Turkey / Can Yücel; title: Thirty-three bullets. My unforgettable one. Your love for me. Locked-up / Ahmed Ari̇f; title: It's like this / Turgut Uyar; title: Kiss me then give birth to me. Rose / Cemal Süreya; title: From the land of exile to the capital of capitals / Sezai̇ Karakoç; title: Hymn for the troubled poet. Song for an ageless woman. Hymn for iron and rust. Autumn. The geranium. Not the fear of shivering / Gülten Akin; title: Some generalizations on current Turkish poetry / Ahmet Oktay; title: Start out with your name. Sisyphus. To end / Cengi̇z Bektaş; title: Poet / Özdemi̇r İnce; title: On the subject of Divan poetry. Kaside. Rubai for Baki. Rubai for Yahya Kemal. Kanto. Poets of the East. Babies of the East / Hi̇lmi̇ Yavuz; title: A question. Four modest haiku for you / Onat Kutlar; title: Lines written on the back of the last pictures I had taken of me whilst I was smiling at my executioner. A shroud for my darling / İsmet Özel; title: Elegies: The sarcophagus of mourning women / Eni̇s Batur; title: Address. The last rehearsal of death. Fair. From "Squares of the thread" / İbrahi̇m Baştuğ; title: From "The quatrains". Not to lament Uğur Mumcu but to praise him / Ataol Behramag̈lu; title: From "Psalms to the teacher" / Mehmet Yaşin; title: Unsendable letters / Neşe Yaşin; title: The heartbeats of a Turkish mother who devoted herself to peace. A holiday in Cyprus / Neri̇man Chai̇t; title: The poem and the fly. From "A shiver in the soul" / Adalet Ag̈aog̈lu; title: The achievement of Adalet Ag̈aog̈lu: an introduction / Ellen Ervin; title: Hanife / Sevgi̇ Soysal; title: The thirst / Nezi̇he Meri̇ç; title: Bearing witness to an age / Füsun Akatli; title: From "Berji Kristin: tales from the garbage hills / Lati̇fe Teki̇n; title: Comets on the Turkish literary horizon: Woman writers / Güneli̇ Gün; title: Limits of freedom / Memet Fuat; title: From "Motherland Hotel" / Yusuf Atilgan; title: From "Night" / Bi̇lge Karasu; title: From "The white castle" / Orhan Pamuk; title: Biographies of authors; title: Selected bibliography.