{"product_id":"first-light-9781938890307","title":"First Light","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoListParagraph\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this bilingual collection (Turkish and English), Zafer Senocak returns to the language of his childhood even as he writes from Germany, his home since he was eleven. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eReaders will find explorations of migration, exile, memory, identity, and the fine line between reason and belief — themes that have appeared throughout his career as a leading Turkish-German intellectual, but which gain new shades of meaning as he articulates them in his first language. Some poems reference mystical Islam — exploring both hidden and evident aspects of the world, the real and the dream-like — as well as Turkish poetic traditions. These poems movingly give voice to what his translator Kristin Dickinson calls “moments of cross-cultural contact and entanglement.” The book will be a fascinating companion to his earlier collection, \u003ci\u003eDoor Languages\u003c\/i\u003e, published by Zephyr Press in 2008, translated from German by Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zafer Şenocak","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42963956727926,"sku":"9781938890307","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_17d30ba4-0782-472a-8b73-1f78b11ba825.jpg?v=1767869522","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/first-light-9781938890307","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}