Contemporary Turkish Poetry: A Selection

" [in CONTEMPORARY TURKISH POETRY] Efforts to create a reciprocity, a fluidity between the elements of 'international' culture and those of traditional culture are manifest. Basically the question is one of transition from a poetry originating in the peripheries to a poetry composed within the framework of the global community."
Ahmet Oktay
"[the work of CONTEMPORARY TURKISH POETS is] a prism that emits innumerable types of light. It embodies a unique synthesis which is rich in its literary and cultural elements and promises to gain greater diversity as it voraciously uncharted territories."
TALÂT SAİT HALMAN