Letters to Taranta-Babu

By Naazm and Nâzm Hikmet

Poetry. Translated from the Turkish by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk. This is the first complete English translation of Hikmet's 1935 book that denounced the imminent Italian invasion of Ethiopia. It is this book that let the Turkish military to begin persecuting Hikmet for his anti-Fascist views. Three years later, the military would sentence him to 28 years in prison for his politics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0914278851
• ISBN13: 9780914278856
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Copper Beech Press
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.