Defense Against the Night Poems

Poetry. Translated from the Turkish by Talât S. Halman. DEFENSE AGAINST THE NIGHT, with over 200 poems selected from Dağlarca's roughly 100 works published over three-quarters of a century, provides insights into the Turkish imagination. The translator Talât S. Halman first introduced Dağlarca to the English-speaking public in 1969. This new volume gives the English reader a well-rounded portrait of the creative power of an "immense poet" of international stature.