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He has three published books of poetry and a sequence of poems in a musical/poetic/dramatic production on compact disk, entitled The Book of Ed. As a translator, he has rendered into English the work of several Latin American, Spanish and Turkish poets. He and Saliha Paker have cotranslated a number of poems by Turkish poets and Latife Tekinʼs novel Sevgili Arsız Ölüm (Dear Shameless Death). Richard McKane studied Classics and Russian at Marlborough College, graduating from Oxford in 1969, the same year he published Selected Poems of Anna Akhmatova (an expanded edition of which appeared from Bloodaxe Books in 1989). He began to learn Turkish in the late 1960s and lived in Turkey during the 1970s. He contributed to the Penguin Book of Turkish Verse and, with Ruth Christie, published collections from Oktay Rifat and Nazım Hikmet. He has also translated or co-translated more than a dozen books of Russian poetry, including a collection of Mandelstam (from Bloodaxe) and, recently, Ten Russian Poets (Anvil Press). Two books of his own poetry, The Turkey Poems and Coffeehouse Poems, have been published in English and Turkish by Yapı Kredi Yayınları. Murat Nemet-Nejatʼs most recent work includes Eda: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry (Talisman House, 2004), essays in Diaspora: homelands in exile, photographs/voices (HarperCollins, 2003), the essay “The Peripheral Space of Photography” (Green Integer, 2003) and the poems “Steps,” “Aishe Series and Other Harbor Poems” and “A Thirteenth Century Dream” (www. cipherjournal.com). His essay “Eleven Septembers Later: Readings of Benjamin Hollanderʼs Vigilance” will appear as a companion piece to Ben Hollanderʼs poem Vigilance, to be published by Beyond Baroque Press in 2005. Önder Otçu did his undergraduate work at Haceteppe University in Ankara, Turkey, and his graduate work in social anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway. A translator from Norwegian, English, and Portuguese into Turkish, and from Turkish into English, he is also a critic and novelist. His much praised translations of works by the distinguished Turkish poet İlhan Berk are collected in Berkʼs Selected Poems (2004). Önder Otçu was a resident fellow at the MacDowell Artistsʼ Colony in 2002. He lives in Istanbul. Saliha Paker is a professor of Translation Studies in the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. Since 1992, she has been an Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham. She studied English and Classics at Istanbul University and has taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. For the last twenty years her research has focused on Ottoman and modern Turkish translation history. Her work in English includes an edited volume, translations: (re)shaping of literature and culture (Boğaziçi University Press, 2002), essays in various international publications, and translations of modern Turkish poetry and fi ction. She is currently on the Executive Council of the International Association of Translation and Intercultural Studies and on the Translation Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association. Richard Tillinghast is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Six Mile Mountain (2000), as well as two books of literary criticism and memoir, Robert Lowell: Damaged Grandeur (1995) and Poetry and What Is Real (2004). Sidney Wade, guest editor for the current issue, received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Houston and is a professor in the Creative Writing program at the University of Florida. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Istanbul in 1989–90 and received a fellowship to the Breadloaf Writersʼ Conference in Vermont in 1994. She is currently vice president of The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP). Her translations of Turkish poets such as Yahya Kemal, Pir Sultan Abdal, and Gülseli İnal have appeared in venues including Two Lines, Eda: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Literature, The Kenyon Review, and Kitaplik. She has published four collections of poetry, including Celestial Bodies (2002), Green (1998), and Istanbulʼdan / From Istanbul (1998). Her poetry has been published in journals such as The New Yorker, Poetry, Paris Review, and Yale Review. Serya Yeşilçay received her B.A. in Western Languages and Literature from Bosphorus University in Istanbul, Turkey and her M.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Florida. She currently lives in Gainesville, Florida, where she teaches magazine and feature writing at the University of Florida (and is in the process of writing her own great American novel). Melike Yılmaz (M.A.) is a research assistant in the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. Her M.A thesis is A Translational Journey: Orhan Pamuk in English, 2004. Translation Review 87
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A Chronological Bibliography of Tur
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In Pursuit of a Poem: Refl ections
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many iʼve seen who aspire to love
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