Guven Turan

Secret Domain Guven Turan

The Secret Domain sequence reads like an extended minimalist monologue, in which the poet induces rather than works the language, inscribing the physical limits of the page while summoning and invoking imaginative space beyond it. Turan speaks of, and out of, the profoundest silence - what Harold Bloom called the "dumbfounding abyss between ourselves and the object." The frequent dichotomy of being and non-being, signaling presence and absence, belays the intricate metaphysics, the flowing of becoming and disappearance, union and separation that give definition to Turan's unique place in contemporary Turkish verse. '...the authenticity of a voice freely engaged in thinking poetically' World Literature Today