Portrait of Orhan Veli Kanık

Orhan Veli Kanık

Orhan Veli Kanık (1914–1950) described himself this way: “Two extremely thin legs, a rather short trench coat, a canary yellow scarf, a triangular face, a back that puffs out like a chest, a face of broken maturity.” He died in Istanbul at the age of thirty-six.

AGNI has published the following work:

Illusion

Poetry by Orhan Veli Kanık • Translated from the Turkish by Richard Schwarzenberger and Grace Martin Smith

Stretched Out

Poetry by Orhan Veli Kanık • Translated from the Turkish by Richard Schwarzenberger and Grace Martin Smith

Fine Weather

Poetry by Orhan Veli Kanık • Translated from the Turkish by Richard Schwarzenberger and Grace Martin Smith

For the Homeland

Poetry by Orhan Veli Kanık • Translated from the Turkish by Richard Schwarzenberger and Grace Martin Smith
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