Murat Nemet-Nejat

Wednesday, October 3, 2012, 5:00 pm
Poet, translator and essayist, Murat Nemet-Nejat reads "The Spiritual Life of Replicants" in its entirety. He is working on part five of the seven-part poem "The Structure of Escape," of which "The Spiritual Life of Replicants" is part four.
Location: 
Humanities Building, Poetry Center
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Sponsor: 
Poetry Center
E-mail: 
poetry@sfsu.edu
Phone: 
415-338-2227
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“In ‘The Spiritual Life’ of Replicants' Heraclitus meets Ridley Scott on the ‘Blade Runner’ set, and they both go off to have tea with John Cage. In this impressive poem Murat Nemet-Nejat carefully sets fragment against fragment, word against word, idea against idea. Meaning collides and colludes with language itself. The result is at times dizzying, always dazzling.” —Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno

Poet, translator and essayist, Nemet-Nejat is the editor of Eda: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry. He was born in Istanbul and graduated from Robert College in Istanbul. He studied literature at Amherst College and Columbia University in the U.S. His books of translations also include Ece Ayhan’s Blind Cat Black and Orthodoxies and Orhan Veli’s I, Orhan Veli. His essays and collaborative works include Possibilities of Istanbul (a visual and textual approach), with Nina Reisinger, and Eleven Septembers Later: Readings of Benjamin Hollander's Vigilance.