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Title: Human Landscapes (Persea Series of Poetry in Translation) by Nazim Hikmet ISBN: 0-89255-068-6 Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc Pub. Date: 01 March, 1983 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $12.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Novel in Verse
Comment: In Human Landscapes, Nâzim Hikmet accomplishes something rare in modern literature, a novel written entirely as poetry. Almost existential in describing the human character, Hikmet's verse-novel is fascinating to read, both for the stories of growth, love, loss, politics and dreams that make up the novel and for the beauty and simplicity of the poetic form.

Hikmet began Human Landscapes in 1941 while in prison and finished it by 1945. Like the wartime works of Sartre and Böll, Human Landscapes is greatly influenced by World War II, the sense of despair in the face of the cold technology of war and the heroism of individuals who stand up for what is right.

In the Forward, Denise Levertov notes that Human Landscape is an epic, both in its length and it scope. It also is epic in the way Hikmet encompasses the range of human experience.

Rating: 4
Summary: good-to read
Comment: he is a great poet that tells us simple thing in human life we dont see.but please remember poetry is more beatiful in its own language. READ HIM! THANK YOU

Rating: 4
Summary: Nazim Hikmet is one of this century's best communist poets.
Comment: Nazim Hikmet was a Turkish communist imprisoned for his committment to social justice and dedication to the oppressed masses of the world. His love of life and the people who must live it in less than ideal conditions resulted in radiant, deep poetry that refused to sugar coat the truth. Never simple-minded, his intelligent poems grapple with what it means to live while so many suffer.