The Tribe Of The Esraris — Ahmet Güntan

The Tribe of the Esraris is an acclaimed Turkish poet s heartfelt commentary on our times an inquiring companion to the new millennium In a series of fragmentary prose pieces on a wide range of topics Ahmet Guntan offers new ways to break the proverbial silence of the poet and tackle the world head on He takes the floor as one of the Esraris the eponymous tribe of uneasy souls and builds the framework of a poetics of deeper engagement with the world around us Reading in part like a philosophical diary The Tribe of the Esraris is a wake up call to be heard a poetic testimony written with olive trees income inequality and E M Cioran in mind I find Guntan s writing intriguing and poetic suggestive almost like haiku far ranging from international politics to observations of some corner of Istanbul His culture is immense from Proust to the hadith and his thoughts uncannily original This is the spirituality of the 21st century Edmund White

The Tribe of the Esraris is an acclaimed Turkish poet s heartfelt commentary on our times an inquiring companion to the new millennium In a series of fragmentary prose pieces on a wide range of topics Ahmet Guntan offers new ways to break the proverbial silence of the poet and tackle the world head on He takes the floor as one of the Esraris the eponymous tribe of uneasy souls and builds the framework of a poetics of deeper engagement with the world around us Reading in part like a philosophical diary The Tribe of the Esraris is a wake up call to be heard a poetic testimony written with olive trees income inequality and E M Cioran in mind I find Guntan s writing intriguing and poetic suggestive almost like haiku far ranging from international politics to observations of some corner of Istanbul His culture is immense from Proust to the hadith and his thoughts uncannily original This is the spirituality of the 21st century Edmund White img src https s3 eu west 1 amazonaws com dia kitadagitim ckeditor_assets pictures 53 content_1_original_original jpg alt height 15 width 15 font size 1 color white font img