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Mutlu Konuk Blasing

Mutlu Konuk Blasing

Turkish-American poetry critic and translator (1944–2021)

Mutlu Konuk Blasing (1944–2021) was a Turkish-American poetry critic and translator, Professor Emerita of English at Brown University.[1] As well as four books on American poetry, she published ten books of translation and a biography of the Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet.[2]

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Life

Mutlu Konuk was born on June 27, 1944.[2] 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.[1]

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

  1. [1]
    Alex Nadirashvili (November 28, 2021). "Prof. Mutlu Konuk Blasing, renowned poetry critic, dies peacefully at 77". The Brown Daily Herald. Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  2. [2]
    "Mutlu's Obituary". Tripp Funeral Home. Retrieved July 19, 2022.
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