Library EventIowa City Book Festival 2019: The Terrain of No Words - An Elegy for Refugees: A Reading of Bejan Matur’s Sea of Fate

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Sunday, October 6, 2019 - 2:30pm to 3:30pm

10/06/2019 2:30pm 10/06/2019 3:30pm Iowa City Book Festival 2019: The Terrain of No Words - An Elegy for Refugees: A Reading of Bejan Matur’s Sea of Fate The world renowned Turkish poet Bejan Matur wrote her Sea of Fate in 2009, in the span of a three-week long “near-trance,” an almost mystical outpouring of words and lines. The poem cycle is a meditation on the fateful passage across the Mediterranean Sea that untold number of refugees have braved for centuries, in search of sanctuary. Bejan Matur’s work has only gained greater valence and urgency since the Syrian refugee odyssey. Join us for a multi-media dramatic reading of Sea of Fate, newly translated into English by Aron Aji and Leigh Marshall. The performance will also feature Turkish painter Mehmet Gunyeli’s artwork inspired by Matur’s poem. Iowa City Public Library Iowa City Public Library America/Chicago public

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C

The world renowned Turkish poet Bejan Matur wrote her Sea of Fate in 2009, in the span of a three-week long “near-trance,” an almost mystical outpouring of words and lines. The poem cycle is a meditation on the fateful passage across the Mediterranean Sea that untold number of refugees have braved for centuries, in search of sanctuary. Bejan Matur’s work has only gained greater valence and urgency since the Syrian refugee odyssey. Join us for a multi-media dramatic reading of Sea of Fate, newly translated into English by Aron Aji and Leigh Marshall. The performance will also feature Turkish painter Mehmet Gunyeli’s artwork inspired by Matur’s poem.

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Cosponsor

Cosponsor Organization: Unesco City of Literature

Cosponsor Name: John Kenyon

Cosponsor Phone: 319-356-5245