[Bilimsel Haber] New edition of Ottoman Lyric Poetry

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Beth DeWeese <edeweese at u.washington.edu>

New, expanded edition now available:

OTTOMAN LYRIC POETRY
An Anthology, Expanded Edition
Edited and Translated by Walter G. Andrews, Najaat Black, and Mehmet
Kalpakli
(University of Washington Press, April 2006)

The Ottoman Empire was one of the most significant forces in world
history and yet little attention is paid to its rich cultural life.
For the people of the Ottoman Empire, lyrical poetry was the most prized
literary activity. Ottoman poetry was highly complex and sophisticated
and was used to express all manner of things, from feelings of love to a
plea for employment. This collection offers free verse translations of
75 lyric poems from the mid-fourteenth to the early twentieth centuries,
along with the Ottoman Turkish texts and, new to this expanded edition,
photographs of printed, lithographed, and hand-written Ottoman script
versions of several of the texts--a bonus for those studying Ottoman
Turkish.

This is a 354-page book, with illustrations, notes, and bibliography,
available in paperback for $20.00. More information about the book can
be found at: http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/ANDOTT.html