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_____________________________________________ An Anthology of Modern Kurdish Literature Volume One: Poetry A Short Study of Modern Kurdish Poetry in Southern Kurdistan Selected and Translated into English by LEILA NADERI iv Modern Kurdish Poetry ______________________ -1351(cid:44)(cid:212)(cid:204)(cid:183)(cid:44)(cid:201)(cid:127)(cid:123)(cid:90)(cid:191): (cid:196)(cid:135)(cid:90)(cid:192)(cid:139)(cid:128)(cid:135) An Anthology of Modern Kurdish Literature: A Short (cid:127)(cid:193)(cid:77)(cid:124)(cid:203)(cid:124)(cid:97)(cid:3)(cid:185)(cid:90)(cid:191)(cid:3)(cid:193)(cid:189)(cid:89)(cid:194)(cid:192)(cid:159) Study of Modern Kurdish Poetry in Southern Kurdistan : Leila Naderi: (cid:201)(cid:123)(cid:90)(cid:110)(cid:135)(cid:3)(cid:127)(cid:90)(cid:204)(cid:102)(cid:122)(cid:93)(cid:3)(cid:128)(cid:102)(cid:175)(cid:123) : (cid:127)(cid:90)(cid:102)(cid:135)(cid:89)(cid:128)(cid:203)(cid:193) 1390(cid:3)(cid:44)(cid:189)(cid:90)(cid:102)(cid:135)(cid:123)(cid:128)(cid:175)(cid:3)(cid:195)(cid:90)(cid:180)(cid:140)(cid:191)(cid:89)(cid:123) :(cid:107)(cid:124)(cid:192)(cid:192)(cid:135) : (cid:128)(cid:140)(cid:191)(cid:3)(cid:99)(cid:90)(cid:144)(cid:122)(cid:140)(cid:187) .(cid:134)(cid:176)(cid:159) : .(cid:107): (cid:201)(cid:128)(cid:197)(cid:90)(cid:155)(cid:3)(cid:99)(cid:90)(cid:144)(cid:122)(cid:140)(cid:187) 978-964-2797-14-1 : (cid:174)(cid:93)(cid:90)(cid:139) (cid:90)(cid:98)(cid:204)(cid:167): (cid:202)(cid:136)(cid:203)(cid:194)(cid:191)(cid:100)(cid:135)(cid:128)(cid:198)(cid:167)(cid:3)(cid:100)(cid:204)(cid:160)(cid:147)(cid:193) .(cid:202)(cid:136)(cid:204)(cid:184)(cid:180)(cid:191)(cid:89) -(cid:201)(cid:123)(cid:128)(cid:175) : (cid:100)(cid:139)(cid:89)(cid:123)(cid:123)(cid:90)(cid:203) .(cid:196)(cid:187)(cid:90)(cid:192)(cid:93)(cid:90)(cid:102)(cid:175) : (cid:100)(cid:139)(cid:89)(cid:123)(cid:123)(cid:90)(cid:203) .(cid:196)(cid:203)(cid:90)(cid:188)(cid:191) : (cid:100)(cid:139)(cid:89)(cid:123)(cid:123)(cid:90)(cid:203) Volume One : (cid:99)(cid:90)(cid:109)(cid:127)(cid:124)(cid:192)(cid:187) (cid:90)(cid:197)(cid:196)(cid:159)(cid:194)(cid:188)(cid:110)(cid:187) - -14(cid:3)(cid:189)(cid:128)(cid:171) --(cid:3)(cid:201)(cid:123)(cid:128)(cid:175)(cid:3)(cid:128)(cid:160)(cid:139): (cid:157)(cid:194)(cid:147)(cid:194)(cid:187) (cid:202)(cid:136)(cid:204)(cid:184)(cid:180)(cid:191)(cid:89)(cid:3)(cid:196)(cid:93)(cid:3)(cid:195)(cid:124)(cid:139)(cid:3)(cid:196)(cid:188)(cid:109)(cid:128)(cid:101) - -14(cid:3)(cid:189)(cid:128)(cid:171) --(cid:3)(cid:201)(cid:123)(cid:128)(cid:175)(cid:3)(cid:128)(cid:160)(cid:139) : (cid:157)(cid:194)(cid:147)(cid:194)(cid:187) (cid:189)(cid:90)(cid:102)(cid:135)(cid:123)(cid:128)(cid:175)(cid:3)(cid:195)(cid:90)(cid:180)(cid:140)(cid:191)(cid:89)(cid:123) : (cid:195)(cid:123)(cid:193)(cid:130)(cid:167)(cid:89)(cid:3)(cid:196)(cid:135)(cid:90)(cid:192)(cid:139) PIR3256/1243/(cid:166)(cid:183)(cid:89)31388 : (cid:195)(cid:128)(cid:180)(cid:192)(cid:175)(cid:3)(cid:201)(cid:124)(cid:192)(cid:93)(cid:195)(cid:123)(cid:127) 8(cid:90)(cid:167)9/2108: (cid:202)(cid:203)(cid:194)(cid:203)(cid:123)(cid:3)(cid:201)(cid:124)(cid:192)(cid:93)(cid:195)(cid:123)(cid:127) 1665765 : (cid:202)(cid:184)(cid:187)(cid:3)(cid:202)(cid:135)(cid:90)(cid:192)(cid:140)(cid:93)(cid:90)(cid:102)(cid:175)(cid:3)(cid:195)(cid:127)(cid:90)(cid:188)(cid:139) .(cid:185)(cid:212)(cid:175)(cid:3)(cid:202)(cid:139)(cid:193)(cid:128)(cid:167)(cid:3)(cid:91)(cid:90)(cid:102)(cid:175) .(cid:107)(cid:124)(cid:192)(cid:192)(cid:135) : (cid:138)(cid:122)(cid:97)(cid:3)(cid:130)(cid:175)(cid:128)(cid:187) An Anthology of Modern Kurdish Literature: A Short Study of Modern Kurdish Poetry in Southern Kurdistan Leila Naderi Editor: Dr Bakhtiar Sadjadi Cover Designer: Behzad Rahimi Typist: Zeinab Chardawli First Print: 2011 Publisher: University of Kurdistan Print run: 1500 Price: 38000R. All Rights Reserved. To Kurdistan’s children whose cries have remained unheard. iv Modern Kurdish Poetry ______________________ i Acknowledgement I am very grateful to Dr. Bakhtiar Sajadi for his sincere guiding and his extensive comments on the manuscript. I hope I have been able to reflect his valuable suggestions. I express my thanks to my dear colleague, Ghotbadin Ahmadi who contributed in a variety of ways in the preparation of this book. I am also very grateful to Naseh Rahmani and Kawa Fatehi to help me in designing of the pages. Thanks also to Behzad Rahimi for the design. I would like to thank my close friends, Shiva Amelirad and Marzya Zaindasht for their unforgettable assistance. I appreciate the poets who have given permission to publish their biographies and poems and those who directly and sincerely gave me their personal information. ii Table of Contents Acknowledgement------------------------------------------------ i Table of Contents------------------------------------------------- ii A Note on the Text------------------------------------------------ 1 Preface-------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Modern Kurdish Poetry in Southern Kurdistan: An Introductory Note ---------------------------------------------------- 9 Modern Kurdish Poetry in Southern Kurdistan: Major Voices --------------------------------------------------------------- 19 Abdula Goran(1904-1962)--------------------------------------- 20 Autumn ----------------------------------------------------------- 22 B loody Flower --------------------------------------------------- 26 Sherko Bekas(1940- )------------------------------------------ 32 H alebja ----------------------------------------------------------- 34 S t ooping ---------------------------------------------------------- 36 T ogether ---------------------------------------------------------- 38 T he Ruin ---------------------------------------------------------- 40 T he Gun ---------------------------------------------------------- 42 S e paration--------------------------------------------------------- 44 Latif Halmat (1947- )------------------------------------------ 46 W riting ------------------------------------------------------------ 48 D ifference -------------------------------------------------------- 50 The Gun ---------------------------------------------------------- 52 Farhad Shakeli(1951- )--------------------------------------- 55 Heart's Mount --------------------------------------------------- 56 The Shelter------------------------------------------------------ 58 iv Modern Kurdish Poetry ______________________ iii Abdula Pashew(1946- )--------------------------------------- 60 T he Unknown Soldier ------------------------------------------ 62 The Burnt Forest ------------------------------------------------- 66 M asterpiece ------------------------------------------------------ 78 On the Grave of a Great Lover--------------------------------- 70 Rafeq Sabir(1950- )------------------------------------------- 72 E va ---------------------------------------------------------------- 74 T he Beginning of My Love ------------------------------------ 76 Under the Rain --------------------------------------------------- 78 C yclone of Love ------------------------------------------------- 80 A Wide Open Window ----------------------------------------- 82 Delshad Abdula (1956- )-------------------------------------- 87 T he Chess -------------------------------------------------------- 88 T he Guest -------------------------------------------------------- 92 H omeless---------------------------------------------------------- 94 Bakhtiar Ali (1960- )------------------------------------------ 97 A Tired Musician's Work and Homeland -------------------- 98 A Doleful Representative--------------------------------------- 104 Kazhal Ahmad (1967- )--------------------------------------- 109 Proverbs of Saying ---------------------------------------------- 110 O! The Source of Great Sorrow ------------------------------- 118 Kazhal Ebrahim Kheder (1968- )--------------------------- 123 The Pages of History ------------------------------------------ 124 The Lips --------------------------------------------------------- 130 The Body -------------------------------------------------------- 132 iv Qubad Jalizada (1953- )-------------------------------------- 135 The Earth -------------------------------------------------------- 136 Father ------------------------------------------------------------ 138 1000 -------------------------------------------------------------- 140 Rozh Halabjei (1969- )---------------------------------------- 143 I Come Back Beyond Being Lost; Life! Stop Please! ---- 144 Mahabad Qaradagi (1966- )--------------------------------- 165 Burning ---------------------------------------------------------- 166 Expatriating to another Resistance -------------------------- 168 Najiba Ahmad (1954- )---------------------------------------- 179 Sunflower ------------------------------------------------------- 180 Encountering --------------------------------------------------- 184 Karim Dashti (1955- )----------------------------------------- 187 An Avenue in the Sky ----------------------------------------- 188 B ibliography--------------------------------------------------------- 196 I ndex ----------------------------------------------------------------- 200 A ppendix------------------------------------------------------------- 207 iv Modern Kurdish Poetry ______________________ A Note on the Text The untranslatable characteristic of poetry is not a unique and a new idea. Even the most loyal translators may be considered treacherous because of the fact that a piece of poetry has a harmonious and organic unity composed of music, rhyme, rhythm, and other features, and translating these features needs an enormous effort. However, I had at least two convincing reasons for translating these poems: firstly, I do agree with those critics who believe that the act of translating is the recreation of a text and the translator is certainly the author of the recreated work. In other words, non-translated works are condemned to death since their rebirth is possible only through translation. Secondly, art is the embodiment of the happiness, pains, suffering, illusions, wishes, and victories of each nation and there should be some concrete devices to transfer it to other nations. Indeed, there 2 Modern Kurdish Poetry ______________________ is an urgent need for illustrating the cries, sighs, tears, and of course the joys, if there are any, of the Kurds. The present anthology consists of two sections; in the first part readers are provided with a short historical account of the literary movements in modern Kurdish poetry of the Southern Kurdistan and the second one contains those poets who have founded a new school or style in poetry along with their main followers who have promising literary works. A lthough mentioning an exact date for the rise of a movement or contributing specific traditions to a poet is a difficult task, a great effort has been done to distinguish the periods correctly and to introduce the remarkable poets with their distinctive works. The sequence of the poets is based on a chronological order which starts at the beginning of the twenties century. Kurdish literature like its stateless nation, which has been divided among several countries, is fragmentary. The rule of dictatorship and censorship has been an obstacle in the development of Kurdish literature in Syria. The Latinized Kurdish system of writing, remarkable differences between Northern Kurdish dialect and other Kurdish dialects and many other political and social features separate Northern Kurdish literature from other Kurdish areas’ literature. The literary movements in Eastern Kurdistan are more influenced by Persian literature rather than by Northern or Southern Kurdish literature. Hence, the present work focuses on Kurdish poetry only in Southern Kurdistan. However, these diversities do not connote that the literature of different Kurdish areas cannot be unified; rather, it needs an enormous effort and systematic long-time researches to cover the totality of these diversities. Since it is the first book of its kind in Kurdish literature, it might have its own deficiencies, too. Hence, I am looking forward to hearing readers’ opinions, suggestions and critical _______________________ 3 views. Indisputably, your consideration would be a helpful lantern through the dark way we are going.

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