Bio
She was born in Ìzmir, 1983; graduated from Ege University, English
Language and Literature. She has had II. Yunus Emre (mention, 2006),
Homeros Attila Ìlhan (mention, 2007), Ali Rıza Ertan (2009) poetry awards
in Turkey.
Her first book Dibine üşüyor Karanlık da was published in 2009 and her
second book Evimi Dağlara Kurdum is a collection of translation from world
poetry. Her latest book Yeniden Çizdim Göğü was published in 2011. She
translated the poems of Persian poet Behruz Kia in the name of Lalelere
Requiem.
Her poems were translated into English, French, Serbian, Arabic, Hebrew
and Italian. She participated in the poetry festivals in
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Israel, Serbia and United States.
She is the editor of the literature magazine Şiirden (of Poetry). She
studies M.A.Turkish literature in Bilkent University, Ankara. She is also
a member of PEN and Writers Syndicate of Turkey.
Müesser Yenìay
Geography of Darkness
Do not close your eyes
you can lose yourself
like an ink
scattering over darkness
here
everywhere is the place where you are
here is our face that crashes light and falls
coming together
like a vase whose pieces unite
no spots on light
darkness that stands like a lover
embracing and including you
here
everywhere is the place where you are
here is the same cloth that everyone wears
night