Mutlu Konuk Blasing
Turkish-American poetry critic and translator (1944–2021)
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Mutlu Konuk Blasing (1944–2021) was a Turkish-American poetry critic and translator, Professor Emerita of English at Brown University.[1] As well as four books on American poetry, she published ten books of translation and a biography of the Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet.[2]
Born1944 
Died2021 (aged 76–77)
(aged 76–77)OccupationLiterary critic, translator, university teacher, anglicist
Employer
Mutlu Konuk Blasing | |
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| Born | 1944 |
| Died | 2021 (aged 76–77) |
| Occupation | Literary critic, translator, university teacher, anglicist |
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Life
Works
- (tr. with Randy Blasing) Things I didn't know I loved : selected poems of Nazim Hikmet by Nâzım Hikmet. 1975.
- (tr. with Randy Blasing) The epic of Sheik Bedreddin and other poems by Nâzım Hikmet. 1977.
- The art of life : studies in American autobiographical literature. 1977.
- American poetry--the rhetoric of its forms. 1980.
- (tr. with Randy Blasing) Rubáiyát by Nâzım Hikmet. 1985.
- (tr. with Randy Blasing) Selected poetry by Nâzım Hikmet. 1986.
- (tr. with Randy Blasing) Human landscapes from my country : an epic novel in verse by Nâzım Hikmet. 1982.
- (tr. with Randy Blasing) Poems of Nazim Hikmet by Nâzım Hikmet. 1994.
- Politics and form in postmodern poetry : O'Hara, Bishop, Ashbery, and Merrill. 1995.
- Lyric poetry : the pain and the pleasure of words. 2006.
- Nâzım Hikmet : the life and times of Turkey's world poet. 2013.
- (tr.) Life's good, brother : a novel by Nâzım Hikmet. 2013.
- (tr. with Randy Blasing) Letters to Taranta-Babu : a poem by Nâzım Hikmet. 2013.