A brave new quest : 100 modern Turkish poems / editor and translator, Talat S. Halman ; associate editor, Jayne L. Warner.

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar -- Fear 3 Awakening 4 Nazim Hikmet -- Today Is Sunday 5 Silence 6 From: The Epic of the War of Liberation 8 From: The Epic of Sheikh Bedreddin 10 Quatrains 15 About Living 17 [untitled] 20 No Tree Has Ever Given Such Marvelous Fruit 21 Necip Fazil Kısakürek -- Anguish 22 Asaf Halet Çelebi -- Abraham 27 Ahmet Muhip Diranas -- Two Solitary Trees 28 Cahit Sitki Taranci -- Poem at Thirty-Five 29 After Death 31 -- Terror 32 -- / Bedri Rahmi Eyuboglu -- The Saga of Istanbul 33 -- / Fazil Husnu Daglarca -- From: The Epic of Çakır 40 -- In Passage 41 -- Ugly 42 -- From: The Epic of the Conquest of Istanbul 45 -- Stone Inscription 48 -- To the Public Prosecutor 49 -- Quatrains 50 -- Beacon 51 -- A Corpse Turns Cold 54 -- My Translators 56 -- Night of the Amnesty 57 -- Imperial Command 59 -- Endless Silence 60 -- Return 61 -- / Orhan Veli Kanik -- I Am Listening to Istanbul 62 -- For You 64 -- This World 65 -- Living 66 -- Exodus 67 -- For Our Homeland 68 -- Just for the Hell of It 69 -- / Oktay Rifat -- The Flute 70 -- A Formidable Gypsy 71 -- / Melih Cevdet Anday -- On the Nomad Sea 72 -- Startling Encounter 78 -- The Flower of Darkness 79 -- Are We Going To Live Without Aging? 80 -- Vertigo 81 -- Copper Age 82 -- The Battle of Kadesh 84 -- From: Odysseus Bound 85 -- / Behcet Necatigil -- Time of Death 87 -- Limit 88 -- Dark Dominion 89 -- / Cahit Kulebi -- A Story of the Sea 90 -- / Ilhan Berk -- Dead 91 -- For Homer 93 -- / Ceyhun Atuf Kansu -- The Critics 94 -- The Daily Rose 96 -- / Salah Birsel -- Geography Lesson 97 -- / Sabahattin Kudret Aksal -- Old Night 99 -- / Necati Cumali -- Mozart's Birds 100 -- / Ozdemir Asaf -- Aphorisms 101 -- / Attila Ilhan -- Ancient Sea Folk 102 -- The Dead Have Grown Old 105 -- Captain 106 -- Another Man 108 -- / Can Yucel -- History Lesson at the Flea Market 111 -- / Umit Yasar Oguzcan -- The Left Ear of the Grand Vizier 114 -- / Nuzhet Erman -- The Big Tale 115 -- / Turgut Uyar -- And Came the Tailors 116 -- Deer Night 120 -- / Metin Eloglu -- Rasp 123 -- / Edip Cansever -- Vanish 124 -- Bedouin 126 -- Crab 127 -- / Talat S. Halman -- The Desolate Locust 130 -- / Cemal Sureya -- Blood Lurks Under All Words 137 -- Just at These Hours 139 -- / Ece Ayhan -- Monument of the Unknown Student 141 -- Kindertotenlieder 142 -- The Voice of Poetry by the Seashore 143 -- / Gulten Akin -- Rain 144 -- / Ahmet Oktay -- All Men Die 145 -- / Kemal Ozer -- All the King's Men 148 -- Like a Flame 149 -- The Tuft 150 -- / Hilmi Yavuz -- now for whatever reason 151 -- / Ozdemir Ince -- In Praise of My Father 152 -- Our Sons 153 -- / Ferit Edgu -- From: Lecture Notes 155 -- / Ulku Tamer -- The Dagger 157 -- Sunday in the Meadows 158 -- Responses for Poetry 159 -- / Turgay Gonenc -- Unexpected Sights 162 -- / Cahit Zarifoglu -- Toward Freedom 163 -- / Ataol Behramoglu -- Some Day for Sure 166 -- / Sennur Sezer -- To Stay Out of the Fight 169 -- / Ismet Ozel -- A Shroud for My Darling 170 -- / Enis Batur -- Lot's Woman 172 -- / Murathan Mungan -- Last Swans 173 -- / Ahmet Erhan -- Waiting Beside a Friend's Coffin 174.