I’ve ignored the Introduction’s irksome description of Nâzım Hikmet as a “necessary poet of the twentieth century,” and gone on to read the translator’s more enlightening Foreword to the Turkish poet’s Human Landscapes: . . . there is a sense in which the poem is literally a cooperative venture, for the prisoners Hikmet knew provided not only the characters for … Continue reading Altaic Storytelling: What We’re Reading Now – Nâzım Hikmet’s “Human Landscapes of My Country”  →