Saturn is a book of selected poems by Levent Yilmaz, Turkey's most gifted young poet. His work is more influenced by French philosophers and Wallace Stevens than by the Turkish masters or Islamic mystics that inform much contemporary Turkish poetry. His poetry is pagan, metaphysical, surreal. If his work were represented in rivers, his rivers would be the Styx, the Bosphoros, the Seine, and the Connecticut. He offers the reader a wonderful, highly enjoyable outing.

Translated by: Unal Aytur