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İlhan Berk (18 November 1918 – 28 August 2008) was a leading Turkish poet. He was a dominant figure in the postmodern current in Turkish poetry (termed, "İkinci Yeni"; "The second new generation") and was very influential among Turkish literary circles.[1]

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İlhan Berk
Born	18 November 1918 Manisa, Ottoman Empire
Died	28 August 2008(2008-08-28) (aged 89) Muğla, Turkey
Occupation	Poet, essayist
Nationality	Turkish
Period	1935–2008
Literary movement	Postmodern literature

Biography

Berk was born in Manisa, Turkey in 1918 and as a child witnessed the Fire of Manisa. He received a teacher's training in Balıkesir. He graduated from the French Language Department of Gazi University in Ankara. Between 1945 and 1955, Berk served as a teacher. He later began to work for the publishing office of Ziraat Bank as a translator (1956–1969). He became specialized in translation of poetry notably by translating into Turkish works by Arthur Rimbaud and Ezra Pound. In his later years, Berk resided in Bodrum where he died on 28 August 2008.

Poetry

Berk's poetry evolved from the approach of an epical socialist to the dreamy vision of a lyrical and erotic individual. He made the "object" visible in its glory and aimed to break down the meaning. Berk's poetry takes its roots from the mythology, and a synthesis of Western and Eastern poetry traditions, yet he accomplishes to create a unique and postmodern approach. Peter Riley, in an analysis of Berk's work published in The Fortnightly Review, suggests the poet sometimes "runs poetry itself to an extremity at which it can no longer function as language."[2]

History, geography, visual arts, cities such as Istanbul, Paris and Ankara, feed Berk's poetry and, his themes are supported by a sizable vocabulary that includes colloquial words as well as very specific ones, such as musical terms and local names of plants.

A significant body of Berk's work is now available in English, most notably A Leaf About To Fall: Selected Poems (2006), Madrigals (2008), The Book of Things (2009) and New selected poems 1947-2008 (2016); all translated by George Messo.

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Bibliography in English

Awards

See also

• List of contemporary Turkish poets

References

Resources

На других языках

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- [en] İlhan Berk

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[ru] Берк, Ильхан

Ильхан Берк (18 ноября 1918 — 28 августа 2008) — турецкий поэт и переводчик. Был одной из ведущих фигур постмодернистского течения в турецкой поэзии İkinci Yeni (рус. «Второе новое поколение»)[2].

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