Articles - March 2017

A word's autobiography

Seyhan Erözçelik's 'KırAğı' and 'Rosebud'

Seyhan Eröçelik in college. Image courtesy of Belgin Erözçelik.

Kır Ağı (Hoarfrost) is Seyhan Erözçelik’s third published book, but if we look at the dates when these poems were composed, we see that it is actually the first book he wrote, published eleven years after these poems were initially written. Seyhan Erözçelik was in his late teens when he wrote Kır Ağı, which took him about three years to finish (1980–83). 

After Seyhan Erözçelik: Dedicated to the Word “Kırağı”

Frost first
force fast
     slow
fist farce (course)
     lost
blow
        — Murat Nemet-Nejat   

To ward off a diabolical poetry

Note: what follows is a transcript of Christian Bök’s talk at Avant Canada: Artists, Prophets