Ash Divan Selected Poems of Enis Batur Author:Enis Batur, Saliha Paker Numbered among the major Turkish writers of our time, Enis Batur has been widely celebrated in his homeland and in Europe. The distinguished critic and anthologist Mehmet Fuat placed him among the strongest poets of his generation. Among poets, Melih Cevdet Anday wrote that he ?found a certain prophetic quality, a saintliness in Batur?s poetry,?... more » and Gülten Akin pointed to ?wisdom in Enis Batur?s poetry, wisdom backed by stories of a lifetime.? Cemal Süreya praised him as ?unlike anyone else,? and Ahmet Oktay wrote that his ?poetry is like those strange tropical plants that fold up at night, waiting for a possible prey.? This is the first volume of Batur's work in English translation. Edited by Saliha Paker, it includes translations by Paker, Clifford Endres, Selhan Savcigil-Endres, and Mel Kenne, with a translation of ?Digenis? by Coşkun Yerli and Ronald Tamplin.« less