Edip Cansever (1928-1986) was an Istanbul poet, member of a group of writers called the Ikinci Yeni, or Second New. His gritty, resolutely secular poetry is well known and widely quoted in Turkey. Dirty August, a volume of his selected poems translated by Richard Tillinghast and Julia Clare Tillinghast, is due out in 2009 from Talisman Editions.
Edip Cansever
the wolf of Ossory (OR: Of the prodigies of our times, and first of a wolf which conversed with a priest)
A letter from Rebecca Cartello in Scarborough, England, to her sister Carla in Longreach, Queensland, 15 December 1955
shadowgraph 73: no longer magic (poetry detected in maria goeppert-mayer’s nobel physics lecture, 1963)