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B O O K S F R O M T U R K E Y<br />
C A H İ T K Ü L E B İ<br />
Cahit Külebi (1917-1997) graduated <strong>from</strong> the Turkish Language and Literature<br />
Department <strong>of</strong> a Teacher Training College in Istanbul. He worked as a literature<br />
teacher, then as chief inspector and as cultural undersecretary at the Ministry<br />
<strong>of</strong> Education. He retired in 1972, but continued to work for the Turkish Language<br />
Institution until 1983. From 1976 onwards he was chairman <strong>of</strong> the Turkish<br />
Language Institution. Cahit Külebi wrote about his experiences and collected facts<br />
relating to Anatolia and Turkey. He wrote poems <strong>from</strong> the perspective <strong>of</strong> workers<br />
who experienced the urban reality and lead urban lives during the social realism<br />
movement in the 1940s. Unlike other poets involved in this movement, Külebi wrote<br />
about his own experiences and not about the facts known to everyone. He observed<br />
Anatolia and Istanbul as well as life in the West. This surely affected his poetry,<br />
though not to a great extent because he established a strong link between the<br />
content and form <strong>of</strong> poetry.<br />
WORKS: Atatürk Kurtuluş Savaşında (Ataturk and the Independence War), Yeşeren<br />
Otlar (Greening Grass), Süt (Milk), Şiirler (Poems), Türk Mavisi (Turkish Blue), Sıkıntı<br />
ve Umut (Boredom and Hope), Yangın (Fire), Bütün Şiirleri (<strong>The</strong> Complete Poems),<br />
Güz Türküleri (Autumn Folksongs), Güzel Yurdum (My Beautiful Homeland), Zerdali<br />
Ağacı (<strong>The</strong> Wild Apricot Tree), İçi Sevda Dolu Yolculuk (Journey <strong>of</strong> Love), Şiir Her<br />
Zaman (Poetry Always), Ecem’in Günlüğü (Ecem’s Diary).<br />
LYRICS-SELECTED POEMS<br />
Bata Press, Macedonia, 2007<br />
Translated by Mariya Leontiç<br />
ISBN: 9789989819650<br />
ozlem@bilgiyayinevi.com.tr<br />
bilgi@bilgiyayinevi.com.tr<br />
This book <strong>consists</strong> <strong>of</strong> 52 poems which are<br />
characterized by a bright “saz” sincerity,<br />
a Karacaoğlan like simplicity, together<br />
with a limpidity <strong>of</strong> language. <strong>The</strong> poems,<br />
<strong>from</strong> time to time, convey feelings <strong>of</strong><br />
pessimism, insecurity and solitude.<br />
Half rhymes, inner voices, thoughts<br />
and feelings, ornamented by elegant<br />
metaphors make Cahit Külebi one <strong>of</strong> the<br />
most popular poets in Turkey.
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