Maybe God Forgives Love
Yehuda Amihay Tekin Publishing House
- Year of Publication: 2016
- Edition: 1
- Number of Pages: 72
- Paper Type: Book Paper
- Size: 13.5 x 21
- Language: Turkish
- Binding Condition: Paperback
- ISBN-10: 9944611619
- Author: Yehuda Amichai
- Translator: Onur Behramoglu
Yehuda Amihay, the great name of modern Israeli poetry, addresses the wars, separations, pains and most of all love with a subtle reproach and elegant objection in his works. He adds life to the Hebrew word for love, 'ahava', by saying, "And loneliness is being in a place where we have never been with you."
Heaven is God's heaven
and the earth was given to man. But
Whose temples of gold and marble?
And how many of the men kissing the mezuzah?
Was he kissed with such love by a woman?
.
Heaven is God's heaven and earth is
It is given to man, but whose table is it?
And whose hand is on the table?
This contemporary poet, especially in the Western world, writes the poetry of real experiences, hopes, despairs, childhood, love, family, the birth and end of a passion, the realities of old age and death, which are an inevitable fate, in a process where poetry is turned into a riddle and the relationships between words are not born from experience but are created from an artificial fiction. Soft touches on words with concrete and shocking metaphors.
The feeling you feel while reading these poems is that you are reading the poetry of our geography, our culture, our people.
Feeling how the translator has internalized the poet and his poems adds a different flavor and depth to the reading.
A. Behramoglu