The Cistern

Kevin Kamal Ayyıldız carries the art of music and painting into the art poetry. The songs in this collection generate vivid images of İstanbul, the poet’s city that "spreads like fire." A remarkable effect is achieved by strokes of verbel imagination, the splendor of sound and emotional recollections filtered through the storehouse of memory. Prof. Dr. Günseli Sönmez İşçi, Head of English Department and Director of Women’s Studies Graduate Program, Ege University