2 books
Cevat Çapan is a poet, translator, critic, and academic whose work creates crossings between languages, theatres, and poetic traditions. The Voice of Water gathers poems attentive to travel, memory, friendship, and the persistence of places after people move on. Images arrive with conversational clarity, then widen into reflections on loss or distance without abandoning the concrete scene. Where Are You, Susie Petschek? presents another translated selection, allowing the recurring geography of Çapan’s poetry—ports, islands, cities, and remembered rooms—to emerge across a broader span. The two books complement one another: The Voice of Water offers a concentrated encounter with his measured lyric voice, while Where Are You, Susie Petschek? gives a wider sense of movement through time and place. Either book also reflects the translator’s ear behind Çapan’s own concise, outward-looking poems.
