Mutlu Konuk

Mutlu Konuk Blasing (1944–2021) was a Turkish-American poetry critic and translator, Professor Emerita of English at Brown University. As well as four books on American poetry, she published ten books of translation and a biography of the Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet.

Life

Mutlu Konuk was born on June 27, 1944. She married the poet and translator Randy Blasing. In the mid-1970s, the pair started spending summers in Turkey translating the work of Nâzım Hikmet together. She died in her summer home in Turkey on August 16, 2021.

Works

* (tr. with Randy Blasing) ''Things I didn't know I loved : selected poems of Nazim Hikmet'' by Nâzım Hikmet. 1975.
* (tr. with Randy Blasing) ''The epic of Sheik Bedreddin and other poems'' by Nâzım Hikmet. 1977.
* ''The art of life : studies in American autobiographical literature''. 1977.
* ''American poetry--the rhetoric of its forms''. 1980.
* (tr. with Randy Blasing) ''Rubáiyát'' by Nâzım Hikmet. 1985.
* (tr. with Randy Blasing) ''Selected poetry'' by Nâzım Hikmet. 1986.
* (tr. with Randy Blasing) ''Human landscapes from my country : an epic novel in verse'' by Nâzım Hikmet. 1982.
* (tr. with Randy Blasing) ''Poems of Nazim Hikmet'' by Nâzım Hikmet. 1994.
* ''Politics and form in postmodern poetry : O'Hara, Bishop, Ashbery, and Merrill''. 1995.
* ''Lyric poetry : the pain and the pleasure of words''. 2006.
* ''Nâzım Hikmet : the life and times of Turkey's world poet''. 2013.
* (tr.) ''Life's good, brother : a novel'' by Nâzım Hikmet. 2013.
* (tr. with Randy Blasing) ''Letters to Taranta-Babu : a poem'' by Nâzım Hikmet. 2013.

References

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1944 births
2021 deaths
Brown University faculty
Turkish–English translators
Literary scholars
American women literary critics
Turkish women literary critics
Turkish literary critics
American literary critics