Beyond the Walls

Nazim Hikmet's poetry combines passion and simplicity with sophistication, producing work of enduring significance. He was both a superb narrative and lyric poet; his immense and continuing popularity in Turkey testifies to his common touch. This extensive selection ranges from his epic poem 'Sheikh Bedreddin' to the moving prison poems addressed to his wife. The book is introduced by the leading expert on Turkish literature, Talat Sait Halman, former Professor of Turkish Literature at Princeton and New York Universities and currently at Bilkent University, Ankara.

ISBN	0856463299	DEWEY edition	DC21
ISBN13	9780856463297 (What's this?)	Pages	256
Publisher	Anvil Press Poetry	Volumes	1
Imprint	Anvil Press Poetry	Weight (grammes)	332
Format	Paperback	Published in	London
Publication date	05 Jan 2002	Height (mm)	216
Translator	Talat Sait Halman, Richard McKane, Ruth Christie	Width (mm)	138
Library of Congress	PL248.H45	Spine width (mm)	19
DEWEY	894.3513	Academic level	General

		Introduction		9
		Translators' Preface		21
		Weeping Willow		27
		The Worm in My Body		29
		To Become a Machine		31
		Extracts from the Diary of La Gioconda		32
		Barefoot		38
		The Provocateur		40
		Maybe I		42
		Four Men and Four Bottles		43
		Advice to Our Children		44
		The Blue-Eyed Giant, the Miniature Woman and the Honeysuckle		45
		Before He Left		46
		Three Cypresses		47
		My Poetry		48
		To Be Blind		49
		Eighth Letter to Taranta-Babu		50
		The Dream		51
		I-14		53
		Sefik the Turner's Shirt		73
		Ahmed's Story		74
		A Letter and a Poem from Nurettin Esfak		77
		The Turkish Peasant		79
		'In the moonlight the ox-carts were rolling'		80
		'Galloping full tilt from furthest Asia'		82
		Poems Written Between 9 and 10 at Night (for his wife Piraye)		83
		'In Istanbul, in Tevkifane prison yard'		97
		1. 'My darling'		98
		2. 'I feel so happy I came into this world'		99
		3. 'I love my country'		100
		Concerning Death		102
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'one of the few important political poets of the century'Paul Zweig

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