Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. It seems that the weather is changing around the world. We hear 'greenhouse effect' and 'El Nino,' but METEOROLOGY is not about weather maps and climatic forecasts. If there's weather in the heart and psyche, a millenial mist at the edge of our collective soul, Ulku's poems are more than digital exactitude and old-fashioned guesswork. The joy of inquiry weaves this book together ... the book could be seen as a small temple of images that won't let us escape scot-free-- Yusef Komunyakaa, from the Foreward. If you should set the roses on fire, the fish and the seas./ If you should let the grain keep rotting in the fields, bought and paid for./ Is it relief that sways the leaves at midnight or regret?/ Or is it just the wind, a warm air mass, pressure, certain laws (Intermittent)
Synopsis
"Heat Lightning, Progress, Cat, George Orwell"--there's little the poems of Alpay Ulku do not address.