Hearing Still - Softcover

Messo, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184861022X ISBN 13: 9781848610224

Publisher: Shearsman Books, 2009

Synopsis

The Middle East, both real and imagined, forms the background against which George Messo's third collection, Hearing Still, shapes its recurring themes: silence, destruction, resistance, and endurance. The poems are, at times, as sparse as the landscapes they inhabit; fragile breaths quivering at the edge of worlds driven by catastrophe and restored by human dignity. Ranging through Turkey, Lebanon and Palestine, to the gravel deserts of Oman, and the desolate coastal plains of the Arabian Gulf, Messo's uniquely strange and illusive vision is at once mysterious and distressing.

About this title

About the Author

George Messo lives in Saudi Arabia with his wife, Semra, and their son, Bashaar. A poet, editor and teacher, he is also a prominent translator of Turkish poetry. His first collection in English, From the Pine Observatory, appeared in 2000, with a second edition a year later. His second and third collections are from Shearsman. His edition of the Selected Poems of the Turkish poet Ilhan Berk appeared from Salt Publishing in 2007, and his own work was represented in the Stride anthology The Allotment: New Lyric Poets, ed. Andy Brown (2006). Shearsman published a further Ilhan Berk volume in 2008, and will also publish his groundbreaking anthology, Ikinci Yeni: The Turkish Avant-Garde in late 2008.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184861022X
• ISBN 13: 9781848610224
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92