Nightingales & Pleasure Gardens Turkish Love Poems

The earliest Turkish verses, dating from the sixth century A.D., were love lyrics. Since then, love has dominated the Turks' poetic modes and moods--"pre-Islamic, Ottoman classical, folk, modern. In style, form and sensibility, this collection offers a broad spectrum: virtually all types and varieties are represented here. The English versions are loyal to the originals and strive to be authentic poems in English. Here are lyrics from pre-Islamic Central Asia, passages from epics, mystical ecstasies of such eminent thirteenth-century figures as Rumi and Yunus Emre, classical poems of the Ottoman Empire (including SCHalman, Talat S. is the author of 'Nightingales & Pleasure Gardens Turkish Love Poems', published 2005 under ISBN 9780815608356 and ISBN 0815608357.