Ilhan Berk was born in 1918 in the Aegean city of Manisa. He once
said "If a poem is written and goes out into the world, something
in the world has changed." Berk's poems have been changing the
world of Turkish poetry for the best part of seven decades. His
innovative poetics have marked him out as one of the vital
modernizing forces in contemporary Turkish literature and earned
him a reputation as a literary enfant terrible, even an
"extremist." Yet others deride his linguistic experimentalism as
the work of a "French renegade." Few poets in Turkey today would
dispute the significance of his work. Even in the year of his
death, at the tender age of 90, more productive than ever, Berk
remained a force to be reckoned with. [...] Berk's writing was a
process of steady, careful refinement and, though his language
never stopped changing, the vision remained remarkably clear. "The
important thing," Berk tells us, "is to live the life of poetry,
the writing always comes later."
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