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Yücel Kayıran

Yücel Kayıran was born in Adana in 1964. His books include Çalgın (Metis, 2006), Son Akşam Yemeği (Metis, 2014), Efsus’a Yolculuk (Metis, 2017), and Stasis (Everest, 2022). Kayıran has received the Golden Orange Poetry Award, the Memet Fuat Criticism Award, and the Yunus Nadi Poetry Award for his work.

Mi’e’raj (The Ascension)

the ladder rising to the sky (after the soil seethes up the waters calm down) this is not Jacob’s ladder   Mount Ahır, Engizek . . . Öksüz . . . Berit . . . Zeytun Springs . . . Blood River Bridge . . . Yeşilgöz Gorge from the deep comes the resolve of the upsurge in ...