Second Annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival - A Chapbook of Talks and Poetry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781451578409)

The chapbook of the Second Annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival opens with the Festival's invited speaker, the renowned literary translator of Hikmet and a scholar of literature, Professor Mutlu Konuk Blasing of Brown University. Her analysis, "Nâzim Hikmet: The Forms of Exile" establishes important insights about Hikmet's poetry of exile as reflected in the poet's mixed use of traditional and free verse forms. The rest of the chapbook is dedicated to poems submitted by the winners of the poetry competition. The competition received over five hundred poems from one hundred seventy poets representing places as far afield as Alaska and Malta. The festival and the poetry competition were organized by American Turkish Association of North Carolina. The festival has taken place on April 18, 2010 in Cary, NC. The festival organizers were Buket Aydemir, Pelin Bali, Erdag Goknar, Mehmet C. Ozturk and Birgul Tuzlali.

Author: Mutlu Konuk Blasing
ISBN-10: 1451578407
ISBN-13: 9781451578409
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2010
Pages: 94
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d