Soy
Zeynep Oktay’s second poetry book, Soy (Lineage), is a book in which the poet searches for and finds the lineage of women within her own self—tracing the lineage of women and the subaltern through women’s history up to the present… In this context, just as in her first poetry book Birlerken, she seeks sacrality and meaning in the discovery and construction of the self. Yet, she does so from a more societal standpoint. In this process, a voice belonging to women is once again born from the language of Sufism and Alevism: a voice that longs to make room for all suppressed voices…
Birlerken
Zeynep Oktay’s first poetry book, Birlerken, carries the meaning-world of Sufism—centered on the transformation of the individual—into modern poetry, while searching in her own personal journey for the traces of womanhood and childhood.
“Prehistoric tribes where I hide my soul
Are in ritual now
Another woman emerges from the mummy you opened
Your touch casts shadows
Shadows give birth to you
Traveling the universes thus
I meet the strangers of yesteryear.”
Media & Reviews
https://www.varlikonline.com/kitap/667/varlik-dergisi-agustos-2024
https://www.k24kitap.org/benliklerimizi-birlerken-4786
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