{"product_id":"9780856463709","title":"Poems of Oktay Rifat","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDED TRANSLATION\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFor half a century Oktay Rifat occupied a leading position in the vanguard of Turkish poetry. Despite his popularity and fame he rarely appeared in public, preferring the private life of an ordinary family man and content to work as an attorney while continuing to write.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis generous selection exemplifies Rifat’s insistence that poetry must be read and must be readable.’ It draws on all phases of his work, from the early iconclasm and later neo-surrealism to the mature period in which innovation blends with folk traditions, creating poetry rich in feeling and thought.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBorn in Trezibond on the Black Sea, Oktay Rifat (1914-1988) was the son of a Turkish Member of Parliament. After studying in Paris before the Second World War he became an attorney and worked for most of his life as a legal adviser for Turkish State Railways.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRuth Christie and Richard McKane are the translators of selected poems by Nâzim Hikmet, \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Walls\u003c\/i\u003e, also from Anvil.\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Carcanet Press, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008544588016,"sku":"9780856463709","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780856463709_p0.jpg?v=1763824458","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780856463709","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}