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{{Short description|Turkish poet}}
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{{History of Turkish literature}}
'''Edip Cansever''' (pronounced {{IPA|tr|eˈdip ˈdʒanseveɾ|}}; {{citation needed span|8 August|date=July 2023}} 1928 – {{citation needed span|28 May|date=July 2023}} 1986) was a [[Poetry of Turkey#Second New Movement|Second New Movement]] Turkish poet. [[Talât Sait Halman]] referred to Cansever as in the light of surrealist [[Asaf Halet Celebi]]<ref>{{cite journal |last=Halman |first=Talât Sait |title=Modern Turkish Literature: Disorientation and Reorientation |journal=Books Abroad |date=1972 |volume=46 |issue=2 |page=230 |doi=10.2307/40126075 |jstor=40126075 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40126075 |issn=0006-7431 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> and Orhan Sarıkaya characterized him as a nonconformist.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sarıkaya |first1=Orhan |title=The Poetry of Edip Cansever from the perspective of Conformism- Nonconformism |journal=FSM Vakıf Üniversitesi |date=1 September 2013 |pages=229–245 |url=https://core.ac.uk/works/40694283 |issn=2148-2217 |lang=turkish}}</ref>

==Biography==
Born in [[Istanbul]], [[Turkey]], Cansever attended Trade Academy for some time, and worked as an antiquity salesman in [[Grand Bazaar, Istanbul]].{{citation needed|date=July 2023}} Despite his denial,{{citation needed|date=July 2023}} he is considered to be a member of second new generation:

{{cquote|The poetry of Edip Cansever has two main characteristics: Being the proof of his life and the result of his poetry craftsmanship. A new essence, a new verse form reaches the niveau of simpleness only after undergoing a layered process of craftmanship. Being an opposer of rigid forms makes him an artist of the ''Ikinci Yeni'' movement. His accomplished revolutionizing of rigid forms comes from the urge of the essence ([[Doğan Hızlan]], 1983){{full citation|date=July 2023}}.}}

He developed [[objective correlative]] before [[T. S. Eliot]]'s work was translated into Turkish, afterward being inspired by Eliot's development and stating he saw the concept as essential to his own poetry's "decoration".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Tezgör |first=Hilmi |title=Two Modern Poets, One Single Term: "The Objective Correlative" as a Link Between T.S. Eliot and Edip Cansever |journal=MSGSÜ Sosyal Bilimler |date=April 2016 |issue=13 |pages=102–112 |url=https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/757863}}</ref>

==Works==
*İkindi Üstü (1947)
*Dirlik Düzenlik (1954)
*Yerçekimli Karanfil (1957)
*Umutsuzlar Parkı (1958)
*Petrol (1959)
*Nerde Antigone (1961)
*Sonrası Kalır (1964)
*Çağrılmayan Yakup (1966)
* Kirli Ağustos (1970)
*Tragedyalar (1974)
*Ben Ruhi Bey Nasılım (1976)
*Sevda ile Sezgi (1977)
*Şairin Seyir Defteri (1980)
*Yeniden (Collected Poems, 1981)
*Bezik Oynayan Kadınlar (1982)
*İlkyaz Şikayetçileri (1984)
*Oteller  (1985)

==Sources==
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;Bibliography
*Ahmet Necdet, ''Modern Turk Siiri Yonelimler, Tanikliklar, Ornekler'', Broy Publishing, October 1993.

==External links==
*[http://www.thesis.bilkent.edu.tr/0002273.pdf A Poet Outside the "Second New Movement": Edip Cansever] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090306015627/http://www.thesis.bilkent.edu.tr/0002273.pdf |date=6 March 2009 }} {{in lang|tr}}
*[http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~sibel/poetry/poems/edip_cansever/english/from_tragedies Poems translated by Murat Nemet-Nejat]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080607151656/http://www.guernicamag.com/poetry/509/two_poems_6/ Two Translated Poems]

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