New photographs of original manuscripts enhance this collection of free verse translations of 75 lyric poems presented with the Ottoman Turkish texts
Preface to the 2006 Expanded Edition
Acknowledgments
Poet’s Preface
A Note on the Pronunciation and Transcription of Turkish
Ottoman Lyrics: Introductory Essay
The Gathering of Desire
Nesimi
1. Oh my idol
Ahmed-I Dai
2. The torture of the beloved
Sheyhi
3. Your sun-face
4. It’s the season of spring
Ahmet Pasha
5. Ask about my wailing
The Mejlis: Gathering of Desire
6. Is there any heart
Nejati
7. Those glances rain down arrows
8. The heart is pleased
9. Those tulip-cheeked ones
10. Spiraling, the sparks
Iskender/Alexander, Hizir, and the Fountain of Eternal Life
Mihri Hatun
11. I opened my eyes
12. At times, my longing
13. My heart burns
Zeynep Hatun
14. Remove your veil
Revani
15. What do you say
Lamii
16. Yesterday I saw
Zati
17. Oh heavens, why do you cry
The Pleasantries of Zati
Hayreti
18. We are not the slaves of Suleyman
Figani
19. My sad heart is burnt black
The Cosmos and the Earth
20. Your kiss does not satisfy
Fevri
21. The arrow of your glance
Hayali
22. They do not know how to search
23. We are among those
24. When dawn hennas her hands
The Story of Leyla and Mejnun
Fuzuli
25. Oh God, don’t let anyone
26. If my heart were a wild bird
27. For long years
28. The pointed reproach of the enemy
Husrev, Shirin, and Ferhad
Nisayi
29. We are the Mejnun
Fabulous Birds
Nevi
30. We don’t need the cup of pleasure
31. Help me, oh sapling
Baki
32. That tyrant
33. Oh beloved, since the origin
34. The fountain of my spirit
35. If only the bud would open
36. Sparks from my heart
37. Your rebellious glance
Yahya Bey
38. Come wander through the city
39. Poetry holds the written veil
Ruhi
40. Curse the thorns of fate
Sheyhulislam Yahya
41. Saki, offer the cup
42. Let the hypocrites
43. Is there no heart
The Down on Your Cheek
Nefi
44. That black drunken eye
45. Those who painted my portrait
46. The heart is both the cup and the wine
Sheyhulislam Bahayi
47. Oh cry, what are you doing
Nabi
48. When we watch the spinning of the sky
49. In the garden of time and destiny
50. At the gathering of joy
Rumi’s Mirror
Naili
51. We are the snake
52. My tears became desire
53. Since the thunderbolt of disaster
54. What witch are you
Poetic Parallels
Neshati
55. We are desire
56. You’re gone – I’m alone
57. The sky’s face has turned dark
Nedim
58. At the gathering of desire
59.When the east wind
60. As the morning wind blows
61. Take yourself to the rose-garden
62. Delicacy was drawn out
Koja Ragib Pasha
63. Dark thought is revealed
Rasih Bey
64. Don’t lower your languid eyes
Fitnat Hanim
65. In a heart
Esrar Dede
66. In the ruins
67. You left, but don’t forget
The Indian Style
Sheyh Galib
68. You are my effendi
69.I won’t abandon you
70. To me, love is the flame
Sunbulzade Vehbi
71. Oh east wind, come
Enderunlu Vasif
72. The gazelles have bound their hearts
Izzet Molla
73. Everyone knows
74. I am a nightingale
Yenishehirli Avni
75. Don’t think we came to ask
Notes
The Poets
Ottoman Turkish Texts
Ottoman Script Texts
Walter G. Andrews holds a research professorship in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington. Najaat Black is a poet and fiction writer. Mehmet Kalpakli is assistant professor of Ottoman culture and literature at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey.
"This is the finest literary translation of Ottoman Turkish lyrics ever done and will shape the reception of the poetry from now on. The selection is excellent--aesthetically superior, historically representative, and stylistically coherent." Victoria Holbrook, Ohio State University "Andrews has teamed up with a first-rate philologist (Kalpakli) and a talented poet (Black), and together they have tried to ... break down resistance to Ottoman poetry and show it forth in something like its native glory." International Journal of Middle East Studies
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