Zareh Yaldizdjian (Zahrad) is one of the most refined poets of Armenian and Turkish literature.
\nBorn in Istanbul in 1924, he carried the language, streets and silence of this city to poetry throughout his life.<\/p>\n
What made him great was that he did not speak loudly.<\/p>\n
He was able to say a lot with few words, to extract universal sadness from the small details of everyday life, and to capture people directly from the heart without getting involved in political slogans.<\/p>\n
Zahrad's poetry does not shout; it sounds like the creak of a chair, a window opening, an unfinished sentence.<\/p>\n
That is precisely why it is permanent.<\/p>\n
He wrote in Armenian, but he wrote the soul of Istanbul.
\nThat is why the Turkish reader also finds himself in him.<\/p>\n
He did not make big promises, he did not speak from a big place;
\nlooked at life through a window.
\nHe talked about Istanbul, but without naming it,
\nhe wrote about loneliness, but without shouting.
\nHis poetry was the most crowded form of silence.<\/p>\n
With a nod to Zahrad's style:<\/p>\n
It's evening
\nthe table is still set for three
\nbut a chair
\nmakes noise
\nwith his absence<\/p>\n
tea has cooled
\nno one noticed
\nmost of all
\ntea doesn't care<\/p>\n
Note<\/strong> These lines are for those who believe that subtlety, not loudness, lasts...<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zahrad's poetry does not shout; it sounds like the creak of a chair, a window opening, an unfinished sentence.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":282034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-282033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-yazarlar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282035,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282033\/revisions\/282035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}