Orhan Veli Selected Poems 2

Orhan Veli was born in Istanbul, in 1914 He studied philosophy, worked for the
Turkish Post Office and as a literary translator. A founder of the Garip (“strange”)
movement, he is one of Turkey’s most popular poets. His poems are innovative,
appealing freely to the senses, heart and mind. He died following an accident, at
the early age of 36 He is buried in Istanbul, in the Aşiyan cemetery, on...

Orhan Veli was born in Istanbul, in 1914 He studied philosophy, worked for the
Turkish Post Office and as a literary translator. A founder of the Garip (“strange”)
movement, he is one of Turkey’s most popular poets. His poems are innovative,
appealing freely to the senses, heart and mind. He died following an accident, at
the early age of 36 He is buried in Istanbul, in the Aşiyan cemetery, on the
shores of the Bosphorus.