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6 Ibid. p. 13. “Biçimcilige . ˘ Kayma.”
7 Ibid. p. 14. “Ilhan Berk’e göre, ‘Siir aslında bir sey
söylemez./ Çagımızın siiri bir sey söylemek için
yazılmıyor artık./
.
Bir hiçtir siirin konusu, bir
hiçten dogar./ ˘ Ikinci Yeni anlatılmayan siirden
yanadır./ Bir sey anlamak isteyenler düzyazı
okusunlar./ Konusuz, öyküsüz olması gerekir
siirin.’”
8 Ibid. p. 15. “Degistirim.” ˛˘
9 Ibid. p. 17. “Karıstırım.”
10 Ibid. p. 19. “Özgür Çagrısım.” ˛˘
11 Ibid. p. 21. “Soyutlama.”
12 Ibid. p. 23. “Anlamsızlık.”
.
13 Ibid. p. 26. “Imgeleme.”
14 Ibid. p. 26. “Anlamdan uzaklasan siirden ‘beklenen
coskuyu, özellikle de etkiyi, izlenimi’
imgenin saglaması ˘ istenir.”
15 Ibid. p. 29. “Usdısına Çıkma.”
16 See Halman, Talat Sait. “Cultranslation—A New
Technique of Poetry Translation” in In Focus.
p. 10. See also Halman, T.S. “Re-Weaving the
Rug: Translating from Turkish” in Paintbrush.
Spring & Autumn, 1977. p. 55.
17 See for instance, “Re-Weaving” article in fn. 16.
18 loc.= Locative suffix.
19 acc.= Accusative suffix, in this case denoting that
it is the object of “bilmiyorum” (I don’t know).
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