Meditating on the works of contemporary American poets and environmental activists Gary Snyder and W. S. Merwin, Barış Ağır explores the traces of two central cultures, the American Indian and Buddhism, in Snyder’s and Merwin’s poetics. The book culminates in a discussion of these poets’ new mythic sense derived from non-Western origin which ultimately deconstructs the anthropocentric ethics and values of Western culture.

Barış Ağır is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Osmaniye Korkut Ata University, Turkey.

Tomâr-ı Turûk-ı Aliyye başta olmak üzere daha çok dinî ve tasavvufî eserleri ile bilinen SâdıkVicdânî’nin klasik şiir etkisinde kaleme aldığı eserleri de vardır. Bu şiirlerinde aruz ölçüsünü başarılı bir şekilde kullanmış; özellikle Nağamât-ı Vicdâniye’de methiye, mersiye, sâkînâme, hicviye gibi türlerde gazel, kaside, mesnevi, murabba, şarkı, terci-i bend, tahmis, terbi ve tardiye gibi eski şiir nazım şekilleriyle güzel örnekler vermiştir.

Bu çalışma ile klasik şiir geleneğinin etkisinin ne denli güçlü bir şekilde 20. yüzyılda da devam ettiğini gösteren en güzel örneklerden olan Nağamât-ı Vicdâniye, Latin harflerine aktarılarak günümüz okur ve araştırmacılarının beğenisine sunulmuş ve dönemin önemli isimlerinden SâdıkVicdânî’nin hayatı ve şair kimliği detaylı bir şekilde incelenmiştir.

Zâir bu cihânbî-bekâdır

Her hâlet-i kâbil-i fenâdır

İkbâline meyl ederse kalbin

Eyyâmıhayât pek hebâdır

Uyma heves ü hevâ-yı nefse

Zîrâ o mugâyirrızâdır

Ben ölmüş isem a nûr-ı dîde

Pendim sana i’tibâr-nümâdır

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject’s sake, and those who write for writing’s sake. While the one have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, the others want money; and so they write, for money. Their thinking is part of the business of writing. They may be recognized by the way in which they spin out their thoughts to the greatest possible length; then, too, by the very nature of their thoughts, which are only half-true, perverse, forced, vacillating; again, by the aversion they generally show to saying anything straight out, so that they may seem other than they are. Hence their writing is deficient in clearness and definiteness, and it is not long before they betray that their only object in writing at all is to cover paper. This sometimes happens with the best authors; now and then, for example, with Lessing in his Dramaturgie, and even in many of Jean Paul’s romances. As soon as the reader perceives this, let him throw the book away; for time is precious. The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.