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Three Poems

Poetry Orhan Veli
Translated by the Turkish by Murat Nemet-Nejat and Jordan Davis

Several years ago the poet and translator Murat Nemet-Nejat approached me with an entertaining offer: take his translations of Orhan Veli, the great poet of modernism in Turkey, and make new poems out of them.
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No. 13

No. 13

Author

Orhan Veli worked for the Turkish post office and as a literary translator for the Ministry of Education. He was one of the founders of the Garip movement in Turkish poetry, and translated numerous French poets into Turkish, including Jules LaForgue and Jacques Prevert. ​

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