Songs from two continents - Moris Farhi

The poems in Songs from Two Continents follow a tradition extended from the folk poetry of the common peoples of Turkey, infusing Moris Farhis Turkish roots with his European upbringing. - Farhis themes are similarly binary and often paradoxical. Thus from carnality to unrequited love, from rapture to sorrow, from mysticism to empiricism, from subjection to freedom, his poems endeavour to express simply
even linearly
the essence of our sensibilities. They seek love and liberation even as they despair of humankinds propensity for conflict and brutality. - Whether conceived in Farhis maturity as a writer or in his rambunctious early years, these poems enquire into such themes with their authors customary sensual verve and passionate intelligence. - In the same vein as Nz'm Hikmet and Orhan Veli, Moris Farhi has developed the idea that poetry should be the pure distillation of emotions, unleashed through existence.