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Metis Fiction
Poetry
13 x 19.5 cm, 112 pp
ISBN No. 975-342-658-9
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1st Print: January 2008
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About the Author
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Bejan Matur was born of an Alevi Kurdish family in 1968 in the ancient Hittite city of Maraş in southeast Turkey. Her first school was in her own village; later she attended high school in the region's most important cultural centre Gaziantep. These years were spent living with her sisters far from their parents. She studied Law at Ankara University, but has never practiced. In her university years, she was published in several literary periodicals. Reviewers found her poetry "dark and mystic". The shamanist poetry with its pagan perceptions, belonging to the past rather than the present, of her birthplace and the nature and life of her village, attracted much attention. Her first book, Rüzgâr Dolu Konaklar (Winds Howl Through the Mansions), published in 1996, unrelated to the contemporary mainstream of Turkish poets and poetry, won several literary prizes. Her second book, Tanrı Görmesin Harflerimi (God Must Not See My Letters, 1999) was warmly greeted. Two further books appeared simultaneously in 2002, Ayın Büyüttüğü Oğullar (Sons Reared by the Moon) and Onun Çölünde (In His Desert), continuing the distinctive language and world of imagery special to herself and her poetry. Her poems have been translated and published in English as In the Temple of a Patient God (Arc Publications, 2004). Bejan Matur, who believes there is no frontier between poetry and life, travels the world like a long-term desert nomad. She stops by Istanbul, a city she sometimes lives in.
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Other Books from Metis
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Rüzgâr Dolu Konaklar (Winds Howl Through the Mansions),1996
Onun Çölünde (In His Desert), 2002
Ayın Büyüttüğü Oğullar (Sons Reared by the Moon), 2002
Tanrı Görmesin Harflerimi (God Must Not See My Letters), 2000, Poetry
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Bejan Matur
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Abraham Forsaking Me
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İbrahim’in Beni Terk Etmesi
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Last poems of Bejan Matur, a leading and highly original voice in the contemporary poetry in Turkey. The book has thirty three poems in four chapters: The Loneliness of Adam, And The Angels Sit on the Right Shoulder, The First Addressing, and Tiger Stripes. Matur's voice recalls the beliefs of children, or of the ancient times, a belief not distorted by religions or by the flux of images and words.
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