Saga: Poems from East-West Dîvan and Other Works - Paperback
Saga: Poems from East-West Dîvan and Other Works - Paperback
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by Enis Batur (Author)
Saga is the second collection of Enis Batur's poetry in English translation. While the current volume comprises only a fraction of his ever-growing oeuvre, it presents some of the poet's most important recent work from East-West Dîvan (2018), his collection of "dramatic" poems. The moving spirit of Batur's vibrant verse draws deeply on his vast range of disparate sources. Of major significance to him is what he calls, in his preface to Ash Dîvan, "my relationship to diverse poets with widely different poetics." The dynamics of this relationship, he goes on to say, have led him to channel his own poetry "in three separate directions: lyric, epic, and dramatic ... each genre following a different course...." The translations in Saga offer readers a memorable taste of the poet's wide-ranging literary and cultural receptiveness and exemplify how it informs his art. (from the Introduction to this volume)
