Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he finally reached Turkey, he stayed in Anatolia for a year with a vague sense of homecoming, although his severed past lay lower, near the coast. In Ankara, he was striken by the bleakness of the surrounding plateau, a feeling recalled by some lines in his journal...
Seferis breathed desolation everywhere in Turkey. As he traveled towards Smyrna, the landscape grew familiar but his anticipation was tempered with foreboding. The changes Turkish soldiers couldn't rend, time worked more subtly and bewilderingly--it even shrunk the walls and roads. He remembered that...
...narrative is written in prose but he slips lines of verse into it like additional exclamation marks, or commas, or periods. The poetry is raw but effective, as the fragment from his winter in Turkey. Occasionally you can trace the development of a poem later published; a series of fleet stanzas written during scattered days on the island of Poros educe The Thrush (probably his best-known poem), named after a little ship sunk off its shores. A growing awareness of the fierce Greek sun figures in his Three Secret Poems of 1969. Its singularity is a mystery he often...
...crack under a door, waning steadily. You realize that the civil strife in Greece, the intrigue of state politics and foreign intervention drains him, and the journal would be a weary monologue if he did not shrug them off. Even during his years at the Greek embassy in Turkey, he shies away from public record...
...protest the coup that overthrew Cypriot President Archbishop Makarios. At the most recent event, which took place at City Hall on August 13, a crowd of four thousand tore up a Turkish flag to protest the invasion and called for an end to U.S. military and economic aid to Turkey...