94pp, paperback in light card covers, silver lettering on front panel. 12mo. Covers a little worn and toned, especially around spine. Internally neat, clean and tight. In its original dust wrapper, rubbed all round edges, sunned over spine, shelf worn.
It has been said and Hikmet is modern Turkish poetry, but he is also a poet of international standing. Born in Salonika, then a Turkish province, in 1902, his political activities resulted in several terms of imprisonment; in 1938 he was interned for life. Freed in a general amnesty in 1951, he fled to the Soviet Union, where he died in 1963. He brought free verse into Turkish poetry, revolutionising its technical complexity; he had a remarkable range from the extreme to moving simplicity, from love lyrics to deep involvement in the bitterness of politics.
