Dirty August

by Richard Tillinghast, Edip Cansever, Julia Clare Tillinghast

Poetry. Translated from the Turkish by Julia Clare Tillinghast and Richard Tillinghast. Edip Cansever is an existential poet, not a historical poet. He seldem refers to his city's history, almost never mentions Istanbul's mosques, fountains and so on that Orhan Pamuk invokes, though perhaps it is to the city's disappearing grandeur that he glancingly alludes when he writes in "Precipice" of "A slowly burning brick barn / Hung with crystal chandeliers,"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584980672
• ISBN13: 9781584980674
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Talisman House, Publishers
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.