Popular Turkish Love Lyrics & Folk Legends

Popular Turkish Love Lyrics and Folk Legends is the first illustrated anthology

of Turkish folk poetry and legends published in the United States. Talat Halman s

eloquent, fluid telling of these engaging stories and his translations

of the love lyrics, accompanied by Zeki F?nd?kog?lu s vibrant serigraphs,

serve as a marvelous introduction to the rich world of Turkish folktales and

lyrics.

This volume brings together three of the most beloved of Anatolian

tales and legends with the life stories and selected poems of four great

folk poets Yunus Emre, Pir Sultan Abdal, Korog?lu, and Karacaog?lan. The

seven sections of the book come alive with images of striking beauty and

dramatic power by F?nd?kog?lu, a son of Anatolia. Each section features

four "visual experiences" extraordinary in their delineation of nature and

human figures, teeming with moods stirring or sinister. They capture not

only the splendor of nature in Anatolia but also the quintessential spirit of

the legends and the lyrics. Cultural and literary historians as well as poetry

lovers will enjoy this stunning union of art and literature."