Edip Cansever, translated by Julia Clare Tillinghast and Richard Tillinghast, Dirty August, Talisman House, $14.95 (paper) Cansever’s poems—as represented in Dirty August, the first English-language ...

Edip Cansever (1928–1986) was a leading member of the Ikinci Yeni ("Second New") group of poets who lived and worked in Istanbul.

Two verses of the poem “Table,” which was written by renowned Turkish poet Edip Cansever, have been omitted from high school books since they include the word “beer.” The omitted verses are as follows ...