HILAL KARAHAN WHO DELIVERS BABIES AND FIERY WORDS OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS DESPITE THOSE INFECTIOUS SMILES!

BIODATA OF HILAL KARAHAN

Turkish poetess, writer, translator, mother and medical doctor (1977, Gaziantep/Turkey).Her professional poems, stories, interviews, articles about poetry have been
published in various national and international poetry-culture-literature magazines since 2000. She has joined many collective books, bilingual poetry almanacs and found in
organization committee of international poetry festivals. Her poems and selected poetry books were translated into many languages. She is a member of Turkish PEN,
Intercontinental Director of World Festival of Poetry (WFP) organisation and Turkish member of World Poetry Movement (WPM) and Turkish ambassador of World Institute of
Peace (WIP); all of which are linked to UNESCO. She organizes International FeminISTANBUL Women’s Poetry Festival every year since 2016.Since 2017, she is a member of
publishing council of international bilingual poetry magazines of Absent and Rosetta Word Literatura.She lives in İstanbul and works as an Obstetrics and Gynecology
resident.

Poem Books-amongst others:

İç Sözlük-Bir Günün Özeti - Self Dictionary-Summary of One Day (2003) Tepenin Önünde - In Front of The Hill (2003) Giz ve Sis - Secret and Mist (2004): Found as
“remarkable” in 2004 Yaşar Nabi Nayır Poem ElectionGecikmiş Mumya - Delayed Mummy (2010): Found as “successful” in 2010 Cemal Süreya Poem Election
Ateşi Bölen Gece - The Night Sundering Passion (2012): Given Burhan Günel Private Award in 2013 M. Sunullah Arısoy Poem Election Denizi Arayan Sokak - Strada Care Cautẵ
Marea (Selected Poems, Translated to Romanian by Niculina Oprea, Bucarest, 2014)
Denizi Arayan Sokak - La Rue Qui Cherce La Mer (Selected Poems, Translated to French by Mustafa Balel, 2016) Ateş ve Gece Arasında - Between Night and Fire (Selected Poems,
Translated to English by Hilal Karahan, 2017) Kırk Yama Kırk Yara - Fourty Wounds Fourty Patchwork (May 2017): Given 2017 İsmet Karadayı Jurie Special Award
قصائد للظّلال - Poems To The Shadows (Selected Poems, Translated to Arabic by Fethi Sassi, Battana Publishing House, Cairo, 2017)
Angoli Della Notte - Corners of Night - Gecenin Köşeleri (Selected Poems, Translated to Italian by Claudia Piccinno, Associazione culturale “Il cuscino di stelle” Bologna,
2018) Oriente Medio, el más lejano y el más cercano - Orta Doğu, En Yakın En Uzak (Selected Poems, Translated to Spanish by Malak Mustafa Soufi, Malaga, 2019)
НОЋНА ЛИРИКА - Night Lyrics - Gece Lirikleri (Selected Poems, Translated to Serbian by Milutin Dijurickovic, Belgrad 2019)
बंद दरवाजा - Band Darwaja - Closed Door - Kapalı Kapı (Selected Poems, Translated to Hindi by Santosh Alex, Authorspress, New Delhi, October 2020)
La Calle Que Busca La Mar - Denizi Arayan Sokak (Selected Poems, Translated to Spanish by Yuri Zambrano-Oscar Limache, In press, 2022)

POEMS BY HILAL KARAHAN IN TURKISH AND ENGLISH

Orta Doğu

1/ Tarihi doğurduğundan beri ayağında sallar
saçındaki bitleri insan kaburgasıyla tarar…

2/ Çöl rüzgârlarıyla savrulur kentlerin etekleri
taş avlulara, camilere, kadim meydanlara
hep birbirinde biten kubbeli sokaklara
aynı közde kavrulur dibek kahve
ve baharat ve barut kokusu

: Kumlar kanı örter de yıkamaz…

3/ Vahşettir, cehalettir çöle yazılmış
yaratanın isimleri: bebeler doğar ve ölür
yazgıdır açlık, kaderdir ishalleri

: Kin dilek tutmaz…

4/ Birbirinin sırtına dayanarak ısınır
çöl gecesinde soğuk, inanç
ve kavim kavli

: Can yarılsa, bedevi keçesi
kan geçirmez…

5/ Deveyle alınır ve satılır, sünnetlidir
hayattan: yüzleri erkeğine dövmeli
yürekleri biçer döver kadınlar…

Middle East

1/ It lulls the history on its feet since it gave birth to it
it combs the lice from its hair with human ribs

2/ The skirts of the cities are scattered by the desert winds
over stone courtyards, mosques, ancient squares,
vaulted streets which always lead to one another

The smell of ground coffee, spice and gunpowder
roasts on same coals

: The sands cover the blood, but cannot wash away…

3/ Names of God written to the desert
are savagery, ignorance: children are born and die
famine is their destiny, diarrhea is their fate

: Grudge does not make a wish…

4/ In the desert night
the cold, the belief and the family consensus
warm up backing up one another

: Even if they are killed, Bedouin felt
does not penetrate blood...

5/ The women are bought and sold
in exchange for camels they are circumcised from the lif:
Their faces are tattooed to men, their hearts are harvester…

Vajinismus Tedavisi

Gerdek gecesi kapı önünde bekleyenler
alamayınca kanlı çarşafı,
aile meclisinde karar verildi:
“Gelin kilitli…”

Kızı götürüp muskacıya bıraktılar,
göbeğinde muska yazsın,
kilidi çözsün diye
üç gün üç gece…

Dördüncü gün sabahı
gelip aldılar kızı,
horozla ödeyerek
muska parasını.

Biçare ömrünce söyleyemedi,
abdestsizin muska yerine,
üç gün üç gece…

Vaginismus Treatment

At the nuptial night,
when the people, waiting behind the door,
could not take the bloody sheet
the consul of family made a decision:
“The bride is locked…”

They took the girl to a sorcerer
to write an amulet on her belly,
to unlock the bride
for three days and night…

In the fourth morning,
they came to take the girl
and pay the money
for the amulet with a cock.

For the rest of her life,
the poor girl could not tell anyone
instead of writing amulet,
what that faithless man did
for three days and nights…