49 Poems From Mosaic

Fota: Batur Fatih ilhan fitim World Literatüre Today No öne else inTurkey recreates îife aııd iangoage with Günersel´s catacİysmic uınovations. Atrue original who not only has göne far beyond most of thedaring explorations of modern Turkisb verse but has also probed ths ouîer reaches posünoder-nism, concrete poetry, eompüttîr esthetics, postde-fonstructionisiH, and grammstology. His poems bear no rescmbiance -ör relattonship-to those wriîien by anyone else in tbe Turkish language. He is tbe fîrst Turkİsh poct who is aot a troubadour and liıe first who has gainetl an ıınder-staading of the scîentific possibiîilies of verse. Not that he avoids the teiîipîations of Euıcient my-thology ör lust ör îove. He is as receptive -more than trât, as voracious- as a computer. He is prog-Tüirımed to make a new syaâıesis of ^1 the daîa he receives and to restnıcture il ali into poerMof a ııniquc esîhetic technology. A draraatist whose plays scare producers with thcîr boldness, a librettisl who has given new vigor to tbe getire, a short-story writer wbose voice soımds uniilse any oîber in Turfcey, Gflucrsel creates st^ıning justapositions of abstractions aad eoncrctc ciements in his poetry. Ifwouldbe too facile to herald him as an enfaat terrible; his is a far more serioııs-nıİJided vision -and rnissîon: îo transform the Turkish po^sic esperience. The preseni collection stands (ör, rathct, takcs a quantuın leap) as a ncw dimeosionof imagination. His noveities predictabiy eaıcounter resistaııce from the iiîerary establishmeııt. As the tîtîe indicates, for the presenî the conservatives are ahead of the innovators,