Ece Ayhan Çağlar (September 10, 1931 in
MuÄŸla
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– July 13, 2002 in
Ä°zmir
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) was a contemporary
Turkish poet. He used the name ''Ece Ayhan'' in his poems. He is one of the prominent figures of the ''II. New Movement'', yet he preferred to refer to this movement as ''Civilian Poetry''. His book ''Blind Cat Black and Orthodoxies'' features examples of
homoerotic poetry
Homoerotic poetry is a genre of poetry implicitly dealing with same-sex romantic or sexual interaction. The male-male erotic tradition encompasses poems by major poets such as Abu Nuwas, Michelangelo, Walt Whitman, Federico GarcÃa Lorca, W. H. ...
in Modern Turkish literature.
Flying (on Ece Ayhan A Blind Cat Black and Orthodoxies)
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Selected works
* ''Kınar Hanım'ın Denizleri'' (1959) (Seas of Kinar Hanim)
* ''Bakışsız Bir Kedi Kara'' (1965) (A Blind Cat Black)
* ''Ortodokslular'' (1968) (Orthodoxies)
* ''Devlet ve Tabiat'' (1973)(Government and Nature)
* ''Yort Savul'' (Collection of the above works, 1977)
* ''Zambaklı Padişah'' (1981) (The Sultan's Lily)
* ''Defterler'' (Diaries, 1981) (Notebooks)
* ''Çok Eski Adıyladır'' (1982) (With Its Very Old Name)
* ''Kolsuz bir Hattat (Prose, 1987) (An Armless Calligrapher)
* ''Çanakkaleli Melahat'a İki El Mektup ya da Özel Bir Fuhuş Tarihi'' (1991) (Two Rounds Of Letter To Melahat Of Çanakkale or A Special History Of Prostitution)
* ''Sivil Åžiirler'' (1993) (Civil Poems)
* ''Son Åžiirler'' (1993) (Last Poems)
* ''Bütün Yort Savul'lar'' (Complete poetry, 1994)
See also
* List of contemporary Turkish poets
This list includes the notable Turkish poets.
* Ahmet Emin Atasoy (1944-)
* Behçet Aysan (1949-1993)
*Yahya Kemal Beyatlı (1884–1958)
*Asım Bezirci (1927-1993)
*Ahmet Haşim (1885–1933)
*Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel (1898–1973)
*Nazım Hikmet ...
References
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*Ahmet Soysal: "A'dan Z'ye Ece Ayhan" (Supplement of Kitaplık review,Istanbul: 2003)
*Ahmet Soysal: "Eşsiz Olana Yakınlık" (Kanat ed., 2006, Istanbul)
References
External links
Detailed biography and complete works
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20060818133826/http://www.fascicle.com/issue01/Poets/ayhan1.htm Poems "Ocharina" and "Rats of Jerusalem"
Poem "Sword"
Poem "Violet Rascal"
1931 births
2002 deaths
Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences alumni
LGBT writers from Turkey
Gay writers
LGBT poets
20th-century Turkish poets
Turkish male poets
20th-century male writers
20th-century LGBT people
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