VarlikEurozineVarlik2012-06-21Summary: Varlik 6/2012Yücel Kayiran
Interview with Ataol Behramoglu
Recently criticized of being a "Kemalist", poet Behramoglu responds to these allegations and speaks about his poetry universe: "I have never been a Kemalist; not when I wrote the Suphi legend, and not now."Sina Akyol
An Attempt of an overview of Ataol Behramoglu's poetry
Akyol discusses the ideas of Behramoglu in the '70s when they were publishing the Halkin Dostlari magazine, and draws attention to affinity between poems written in different times.Yücel Kayiran
Ataol Behramoglu poetry: Poetic Carpe Diem, humanist naturalism and phenomenal socialism
Kayiran argues that Behramoglu's early poetry was influenced by Albert Camus and comments on the close ties between his poetry and the Garip movement.Mustafa Günay
Poetry as utopian living: Strife between life and poetry in the poems of Ataol Behramoglu
Günay claims that Behramoglu's poetry becomes a manifest for the individual's awareness of existence and comments on how this poetry is built on anxiety. Yasar Günes
The sophistication of the subject: Ataol Behramoglu poetry
Günes says, "'Iste Bir Siir' is not only impressive because it embraces the change in pathos and reconciles new and old emotional burdens brought together by the change, but also significant because it is one of the few poems that points at this situation."Mustafa Serif Onaran
Hello, Fisherman
Remembering the poet Cevat Sakir Kabaagacli, a.k.a. "Halikarnas Balikcisi" ("The Fisherman of Halicarnassos") with his works and the coastal towns he lived in.Erendiz Atasü
"Conservative Art" and beyond
Atasü argues, "Art that is conservative, meaning art that is complacent with the existing, is against the nature of things. It simply cannot exist."Ilyas Tunc
Sexual violence in the contemporary poetry of South Africa
Tunc says, "After raising their voices against the Apartheid regime in the 1970's, South African poets maintain their dissident, protesting attitude towards their own government. This also shows that the poet is against authority and injustice of any kind."Tozan Alkan
Translation poems
Alkan says, "These are not 'translated' poems, they are 'translation' poems, poems inspired by translation in a way like love or nature inspires other poems", and provides examples of these poems.Tevfik Kalkan
"Season of migration to the north"
Kalkan says, "Tayep Salih has issues about making art while being African, dark-skinned, Arab and anti-imperialist at the same time" and reviews "Season of Migration to the North" by Salih.