Birhan Keskin Livres

Birhan Keskin's poetry is finely-honed and minimal and at the same time, powerfully visual, evocative and exact. Meaning and music overlap, lines dissolve, restart and repeat. This book selects work from six of Keskin's books, and George Messo's outstanding translation enables us to appreciate to the full the work of this exceptional poet.

Birhan Keskin's Y'ol is a singular accomplishment, a book about desire and loss and craziness on a grand scale, the Turkish equivalent, perhaps, of something like Nicole Brossard's Mauve Desert.