Beyond the Walls: Selected Poems Book

	Introduction	9
	Translators' Preface	21
	835 Lines
	from 835 Lines
	Weeping Willow	27
	The Worm in My Body	29
	To Become a Machine	31
	Extracts from the Diary of La Gioconda	32
	from Varan 3
	Barefoot	38
	from The City That Lost its Voice
	The Provocateur	40
	Maybe I	42
	Four Men and Four Bottles	43
	Advice to Our Children	44
	Why Did Benerjee Kill Himself?
	from Telegram in the Night
	The Blue-Eyed Giant, the Miniature Woman and the Honeysuckle	45
	Before He Left	46
	Three Cypresses	47
	from Portraits
	My Poetry	48
	from Letters to Taranta-Babu
	To Be Blind	49
	Eighth Letter to Taranta-Babu	50
	The Epic of Sheikh Bedreddin
	The Dream	51
	1-14	53
	Sefik the Turner's Shirt	73
	Ahmed's Story	74
	The Epic of the War of Independence
	from Chapter 4
	A Letter and a Poem from Nurettin Esfak	77
	The Turkish Peasant	79
	from Chapter 7
	'In the moonlight the ox-carts were rolling'	80
	from Chapter 8
	'Galloping full tilt from furthest Asia'	82
	Poems Written Between 9 and 10 at Night (for his wife Piraye)	83
	from Four Prisons
	Istanbul
	'In Istanbul, in Tevkifane prison yard'	97
1	'My darling'	98
2	'I feel so happy I came into this world'	99
3	'I love my country'	100
	Concerning Death	102
	A Birth and a Factory Chimney	105
	The Doomsday Verses
1	The Verse of the Signs	107
2	The Verse of Evaporation	108
	Ankara
	Letters from a Man in Solitary	109
	Cankiri
	Letters from Cankiri Prison (1-3)	113
	A Cracked Washbasin	117
	The Story of the Walnut Tree and Lame Yunus	123
	Bursa
	Lodos	130
	A Strange Feeling	133
	Letter to Kemal Tahir	135
	A Poor Northern Church: Satan and the Priest	138
	Quatrains
Part 1	13 quatrains	146
Part 2	6 quatrains	149
Part 3	4 quatrains	151
	In Bursa's Fortress Prison
	Poems 1929-1935
	'Before the dawn embraces the mountains'	152
	Poems 1937-1951
	'I want to die before you'	153
	'Suppose Istanbul my hometown sent me a cypress chest by sea'	155
	A Spring Scene	156
	'I Shut My Eyes Tight'	158
	In Bursa's Fortress Prison	159
	The Weirdest Creature in the World	160
	Illustration on the Cover of a Poetry Book	161
	Uludag	162
	Don Quixote	164
	On Living	165
	Angina Pectoris	168
	Occupation	169
	Autumn	170
	Advice for Someone Going into Prison	171
	Your Hands and the Lies	173
	Five Days into the Hunger Strike	175
	Sad Freedom	177
	New Poems
	Testament	179
	Evening	181
	The Postman	182
	My Son is Growing up in Photographs	184
	'To chop down the plane tree'	185
	New Year's Day	186
	Munevver's Letter from Istanbul	187
	The Japanese Fisherman	192
	'Light of my eye, my darling!'	194
	I Got a Letter from Munevver, She Says	195
	I Wrote a Letter to Munevver, I Said	196
	The Walnut Tree	197
	The Last Bus	198
	Optimism	200
	A Journey	201
	Strontium 90	202
	Fable of Fables	203
	Chatting with Nezval who Died	205
	Bees	207
	Old Man on the Shore	208
	Great Humanity	209
	The Optimist	210
	The Icebreaker	211
	Last Poems
	Two Loves	212
	The Three Storks Restaurant	214
	Morning Darkness	215
	'My woman came with me as far as Brest'	217
	In Beyazit Square	218
	Flaxen Hair	219
	'My time is coming'	231
	Autobiography	232
	'From stone, bronze, plaster, paper'	234
	Where Have We Come From, Where Are We Going?	235
	My Funeral	237
Appendix	Early Poems (1913-1925)
	'The Ways of God'	241
	Dream	242
	Old Man by the Brink of a Stream	243
	Water Wheel in the Kitchen Garden	244
	First Look at Anatolia	245
	The Dark Fanatical Forces	246
	Wanderlust	247
	Notes	249
	Index of Titles	253