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GIZEM OKULU– TOO SLICED FOR LANDING
GIZEM OKULU– TOO SLICED FOR LANDING
Published January 2017 -- Second printing April 2018
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Gizem Okulu’s first book is a sequence of 31 poems which, in broken and extended lines, explore the terrifying possibility of lack of speech, of blocked communication: a poetry written between languages and countries which both bridges and attests to the gap, the chasm that “opens / up / isolated / and / frightened”. These are poems about wandering, fleeing, fogs and rivers, conditions of distance and danger, marked at times by flashes of biting humour and throughout by intense commitment.
“I do not belong here nor there I say but here I want to make you a house from the memories of every woman you ever had before like the resistance of senses meeting for one last time in the mirror we slept between the rivers and smokes in earthquake lights all day and night in the cities against the sun.”
Gizem Okulu is a poet who has published poems in Botch, Datableed, Intercapillary Space, &c. and is studying for a Ph.D at Royal Holloway. She lives in London