A centennial volume, with previously unavailable poems, by Turkey's
greatest poet.  Published in celebration of the poet's one hundredth
birthday, this exciting edition of the poems of the Nazim Hikmet
(1902-1963) collects work from his four previous selected volumes and adds more than twenty poems never
before available in English. The Blasing/Konuk translations, acclaimed
for the past quarter-century for their accuracy and grace, convey
Hikmet's compassionate, accessible voice with the subtle music,
innovative form, and emotional directness of the originals.

Nazim Hikmet is considered Turkey's greatest modern poet. For his Communist views, he was imprisoned in Turkey and his work was banned. His poetry has been translated into more than fifty languages. He won the World Peace Prize (the USSR's equivalent of the Nobel) in 1950. He died in 1963 in exile.