Twentieth Button I made buttons out of salt particles rippling across the ocean’s evening. Minerals and dried plant were extracted, remnants of volcanoes and forest fires, smoke and acid, neutrons produced by fission, prayers for the easiest way to make rain. You asked me to explain the second process within this clutter I’ve made: often, […]
Mete Özel
METE ÖZEL’s first book Ilgım Düş Esrar was published in 2008 by Yasakmeyve. Since 2014 he has been working on aspects of Anatolian oral traditions as a researcher and storyteller in collaboration with the in numerous well-known Turkish journals, such as Varlık and Sözcükler. He is an accomplished critic, having published essays about Elitis, Pavese, Cavalcanti, and Goethe. Metin Altıok. Carlos Felipe Moisés, Artem Harutyunyan, Rutger Kopland, Michele Zaffarano, Miron Bialoszevski, Yip Fai, Yelena Şvarts, Donnie Smith, and Elena Liliana Popescu are a few of the poets he has translated. He is a founding partner of an international translation company called Mirora. He lives in Istanbul.
