“HERKES KALBİNİN KAFESİNDE YAŞAR, YARASINDAN BAKAR DÜNYAYA”: HİLÂL KARAHAN ŞİİRİ
“EVERYONE LIVES IN HEART’S CAGE, WATCHING THE EARTH THROUGH WOUNDS”: HILÂL KARAHAN POETRY

Summary/Abstract: Hilâl Karahan is publishing poetry, interview and research texts since 2000. Karahan interrogates tradition with her lyrical and mystical poems and questions the woman’s place in society with her narrative poems. Hilâl Karahan’s poems, which are connotative to laments, letters, songs, share the pain of women and children especially. In Karahan’s poems, sections that are written on the right, in italics and different fonts are noteworthy. She uses collage technique which is a postmodern method in poetry. These poems can be read as one or two poems. Poems have varios distinct poetry personas. These subconscious collages show the polyphony of the poet’s poems. Karahan tries to catch the rhythm of the psalms of Psalter, the hymns read in the rituals and the monuments (The God’s attribute, the first part of the Torah, the creation of man) read in the verses. Hilâl Karahan, who tries to reproduce the first voice during the creation of the universe -and all sounds derived from it- in her poems, questions the human relationship and reflects the role of language in human creation in the light of the mystical terms.

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