Migration Ballads: A Poet's Journey

Migration Ballads embraces the reader with a symphony of natural sound which purifies the inner world. It is the poet gusts of wind from the Taurus Mountains days and nights spreading out and a harvest of dreams. Happily it is the sea bitten off and kissed by the moon. It is the color of death. And it is as if you could listen to all of this in the distilled voice of an old timer or from the heavenly host of the mountains themselves. Umit Sariaslan poet writer critic Turkey Vivid engaging poems! These poems take you many places visually tactilely and emotionally. R. Bruce Bickley Jr. Griffith T. Pugh Professor of English Emeritus Florida State University USA Poets have neither a home nor a town nor a country. Their real places are the mountains the rocks the valleys the trees the swings the kites. As you will see Ali F. Bilir is standing up on his tasseled kites and/or magic carpets and flying around among the wondering stars. M. Ali Sulutas researcher writer Turkey Ali F. Bilir is a poet who uses clear language and complex syntax. He is good with language a poet somewhat difficult to translate. . . like Apollinaire. Mustafa B. Yalciner researcher writer Turkey Ali Bilir is a true poet. His last name means one who knows; one who is insightful... Farideh Hasanzadeh-Mostafavi poet and translator Iran To me the poems are the way of breathing. Thank you for giving me a fresh colorful and deep breath. Arzu Gungor educational researcher Florida State University USA Editing the poetry of Ali Bilir as translated from Turkish by M. Ali Sulutas has been an honor like speaking to the soul of a friend you have never met like finding a window no one has discovered into the work of Lorca or Vallejo. These wonderful poems were given to me by Bilirs daughter Defne reminding me I am also the daughter of a poet whose first book I published reminding me that poetry travels around the world from friend to friend family to family soul to soul. Susan Bright poet publisher USA