Defense Against the Night

Poetry. Translated from the Turkish by Talât S. Halman. DEFENSE AGAINST THE NIGHT, with over 200 poems selected from Dağlarca's roughly 100 works published over three-quarters of a century, provides insights into the Turkish imagination. The translator Talât S. Halman first introduced Dağlarca to the English-speaking public in 1969. This new volume gives the English reader a well-rounded portrait of the creative power of an "immense poet" of international stature.