Randy Blasing

Mutlu Konuk Blasing

Nâzım Hikmet

The definitive selection by the first and foremost modern Turkish poet.

Poems of Nazim Hikmet

Written in free verse and employing such cinematic techniques as flashbacks, pans, zooms, dissolves, and jump cuts, this stunning 17,000 line novel in verse traces the fortunes of men and women during Turkey's change from an Islamic empire to a secular republic and exemplifies his vision of life as a communal experiment in creating a world in the image of our dreams.

An Epic Novel in Verse

Human Landscapes from My Country

Selected Poems of Nâzim Hikmet

Things I Didn't Know I Loved

Poetry. Translated from the Turkish by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk. This is the first complete English translation of Hikmet's 1935 book that denounced the imminent Italian invasion of Ethiopia. It is this book that let the Turkish military to begin persecuting Hikmet for his anti-Fascist views. Three years later, the military would sentence him to 28 years in prison for his politics.

A Poem

Letters to Taranta-Babu

Deals with the past, memories, family life, childhood, the seasons, school, food, and the sea

Randy Blasing

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