Selected Poems

by Nazim Hikmet

[Preface by David Cohen]

A Parichaya-Unity Publication / Asoke Ghosh

April 1952 (first Indian edition)

Hardcover in illustrated card boards, 71pp. Previous owner's ink inscription on front endpaper, dated 1952. Slight bump to lower edge, otherwise very good.

An important early edition of the Turkish writer's poems published for English-speaking Indian audiences. Nazim Hikmet was a socialist revolutionary who spent much time imprisoned or exiled. Many poems in this volume are based on these experiences, such as 'Since I Was Jailed', 'The Fifth Day of a Hunger Strike', 'Advice to a Fellow Prisoner', etc.

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