Gökyokuş (Book)

Gökyokuş is a poetry collection published by Can Yücel in 1984. The book employs a sharp and direct style to critique contemporary political events and social issues, often making allusions to the political climate and specific incidents. The work features a style of associative black humor. The poems incorporate vernacular language, slang expressions, and vivid everyday speech.

Free verse, closeness to folk language, and the use of slang dominate the overall structure of the poetry. There is an explicit stance toward social issues such as the police, the state, and human conditions. Black humor and a variety of tones are employed. Literary devices are used throughout the poems, and events from everyday life are woven into the poetic fabric.

To Guard the Sunflowers

My Friend the Poet Necati Started Talking Since Censorship Broke, Now I Can Speak Too, Turabı, Görece, Yiğitleme, Kehanet, Düz, A Crow and a Fox with a Clear Mind, Sorgulama, Nisbet to the Heartwriter, Öp Babanın…, Hamama Kar, A Family Matter, Güya, Nâzire, Ac badem, Büyük Sözü Tutma!, Nereden Nereye, Caponca, Shakespeare in Türkiye, Dörtlük, Yangın Var, Ükrâniye, A Word Game, Avcıoğlu’na, Suicide Note from Yesenin in Moscow, Cazzzzzzzz, Olur-Ölür/Ölür-Olur, Kare Kökler, İli’deki Tencereye, Estetik, Mukaffa Bir Kafaya, Bir Formül, Ay p ey, Dü Bozumu, Kongolu, Papatyalar Açarken, Aç Bi Ac, İtiraza İtirazım Var

From Muzaffer Haznedar at Six Years Old, Water Ode, Cardiography Heart Writing, At the Literature Exam, A Maya Who Hasn’t Understood Herself, Confession, Warning, Poet Be!, Out of the Ordinary, Blessing Upon His Life, Reed, Greater Pardon Than Sin, Rûbaî, A Lake Without Ahmet Haşim, Self-Introduction, Protest, They Also Call Us the Spark, Zamparadoks, Teyet, Yedilik, Reddiye, Tecdid-i Kayıt, Scribbling with Minds, Accusation, Like a Father Giving a Son, Daüssıla, Horse’s Word, From Exile, Çalakalem, İğneli, In This Latitude, Konuşmaaaa!, Kitâbe, GGG, On Behalf of Ireland’s Great Poet W. B. Yeats, A Chinese Poem, Record-Breaker

Gökyokuş, Tiii, Âlâdan Bâlâ, Ağıt, Hatime