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| Publications |
 Diaspora & Dislocation
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Cyprus's Bad Period and The Passport You Asked For, are bundled together as two books in one volume - both about dislocation and diaspora. |
| A Counter-Dictionary
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As anyone who is reading this is about to discover, "Turkish: A Dictionary of Delights", is not a dictionary in the normal sense (...) it's an incorrect one: The definitions are true but they are not right." from the Introduction. |
| To request a book, contact Adnan A. Onart or The Aeolos Press. |
The Morning Prayer
In a poor Istanbul neighborhood,
At the ground floor of our house,
My great-grandmother says:
It is time for
morning prayer.
If you
pray, she says, pure
as a child,
From this corner
of the room,
An angel will appear.
I am five years old closing my eyes.
Allahü
Ekber.
Essallamü
alleyküm ve rahmetullah.
I am fifty opening my eyes.
In Boston, Massachusetts,
In a not so poor neighborhood
At the top floor of our house
Praying my morning prayer.
From that corner of the room,
My great-grandmother appears.
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| Selected Poems |
| Bozturgay |
| Ramadan in Dunkin Donuts |
| Al-Mir'aj |
| Ribbon Time - A Series: |
| The Week Before |
| The Moment |
| An Hour After... |
| A
History for
a Love ... |
| A
Bulgarian
Movie with ... |
| The Barn
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| Thirteenth Tribe
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| The Morning Prayer (printable) |
| On Line |
| Spinach
and Peas |
| Boston University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations has the video recording as well as the slides in the pdf format of my lecture on Four Gates & A Gate Keeper: Reflections on Anatolian Sufism Through the Poetry of Yunus Emre on their WEB site. |