We are Turgut Uyar's Children

The poet has a biological child and a child made of words and letters. Even if the poet looks at both of them the same way and wants to treat them equally, there is a period of time that needs to be divided, a limited life: injustice is almost inevitable. There is something else that increases the tension even more. The poet is not only a father, he is also a child: the child of his own poems, the product of his own writings. The child grows and changes; With each book, with each phase of poetry, a different "person" emerges - biological children cannot be expected to follow this change in their father day by day, and it is not possible anyway. Turgut Uyar is undoubtedly one of the pole stars of Turkish poetry. of his poetry,
He is of course someone who is curious about his personality and life as well as his poetics... DervişAydın Akkoç's interviews with his four children, Semiramis Uyar, Şeyda Uyar Dikmen, Tunga Uyar and Turgut Uyar enable us to learn a lot about the poet. It's not just about the poet, it's about Tomris Uyar, other writers, his friends... It's about "those times" of Turkey (by the way, Posof, Terme, Ankara, Istanbul), the literary environment, daily life... And of course, we learn a lot about father-child relationships and witness many subtleties with this book. We are Turgut Uyar's Children; A delicate book that is both biographical, documentary, and a long story...
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 221

Year of Printing: 2014


Language: Turkish
Publisher: İletişim Publishing

First Print Year: 2014

Language Turkish