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Turkish poet, writer, and journalist Yılmaz Odabaşı (born 1962) writes across lyric poetry, fiction, memoir, and reportage, often bringing private loss into contact with political pressure and collective memory. Everything But You gathers his poetry for English-language readers and makes the direct emotional register of his work visible without separating love from exile, absence, or the burden of place. The volume’s compressed declarations can sound intimate, yet their force often depends on a wider history of displacement and public conflict. That movement between the personal and the civic is central to Odabaşı’s writing: the beloved, the city, childhood, and political memory repeatedly enter the same field. Everything But You is the natural English entry because it offers a broad selection rather than a single narrative; readers can follow how recurring images of departure and attachment change across different poems.
