I've Learned Some Things

Ataol Behramoğlu, Professor of Russian Language and Literature at Istanbul University and a columnist for the newspaper Cumhuriyet, continues to write poetry as well as articles, criticism, travel literature, children's stories, plays, and translations. Walter G. Andrews is Research Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington and is also the Director of the Ottoman Texts Archive Project (OTAP). He has authored numerous articles and books on Ottoman literature and has translated several volumes of Ottoman and Turkish poetry, including Seasons of the Word: Selected Poems of Hilmi Yavuz.

• Translator's preface; Introduction: A poet in dialogue with the world by Laurent Mignon I this love ends here; II One day surely; III Turkey, my unhappy land, my lovely land; IV A summer past; V Gazel to a new love Chronology