A Brave New Quest: 100 Modern Turkish Poems is a selection of modern Turkish poetry that conveys in faithful translations the full spectrum of Turkish humor, intellectual exploration, love, politics, and social justice. It contains stirring selections representing the revolutionary romanticism of Nazim Hikmet and the passionate wisdom of Fazil Husnu Daglarca-as well as the rebellious spirit of the social realists and the diversity of many of the young poets. An enduring passion among the Turks for centuries, poetry is an art practiced not only by professional poets, but by sultans and soldiers, housewives and scholars. Many genres that were the exclusive domain of prose in other cultures flourished in verse in Turkey: travelogues, chronicles, correspondence, even scientific tracts and school textbooks. Traditionally, intellectuals expressed their unorthodox and heretical ideas in meter and rhyme. Since 1923, when the Turkish Republic came into being, poetry has launched new ideologies and aesthetic values. Featuring a wide variety of the poetry that is the lifeblood of Turkish society, the poems in this volume reveal the soul of a nation-infused with their own unique flavors while speaking in an unmistakably universal style. Book jacket.