stone in love

ISBN-13: 9781940605852 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 106 str.

Oguz Erdur; Carlos Steward

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"Erdur is deranged in all the right ways. His poetry should come witha warning lable. But since it doesnt Im here to say: BE PREPARED. Stone inLove, Oguz Erdurs debut work in the English Language frightens, twists, howlswith powerful insights, hilarity and heartbreak and does so at crazy-ass, estremespeed.Jack Moe, author of Common Uniquenessborn on the western coast of turkey, where a great deal of what we now call "ancientgreece" happened, oguz had to go far away at a young age in order to find out that "home" isless a place than a state of mind. after living in auburn maine for a cold, complicated teenageyear as a cultural exchange student, he went back to turkey in 1990 and attended collegein istanbul, the one-time capital of not one but two world empires, namely byzantine andottoman. in this magnificent city of seven hills and over ten million people, oguz earned abachelors in economics, a masters in environmental sciences, and close to no money at all.then in 1997, he embarked upon the second life-changing cross-Atlantic journey of his life,packed his existential awe and social alienation into two suitcases, and moved to new yorkcity, where he occupied 10 different apartments in slightly less than 10 years. a decade ofseeking, a decent amount of gloom, some poetry, and a lot of bourbon later, oguz finally cameto terms with the fact that the bizarre g in his name makes it sound like "cheerios" and that hewasnt finding the true meaning of existence anytime soon. so instead, he settled for a ph.d. incultural anthropology from columbia university, which cost him, among other things, a flourishingcareer in professional dog-walking. since 2009, oguz teaches courses in anthropology,archaeology, the middle east, and friedrich nietzsche at unc asheville. he also tries to eat better,floss regularly, and go easy on the bourbon.