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Edip Cansever (pronounced[eˈdipˈdʒanseveɾ];8 August[citation needed] 1928 –28 May[citation needed] 1986) was aSecond New Movement Turkish poet.Talât Sait Halman referred to Cansever as in the light of surrealistAsaf Halet Celebi[1] and Orhan Sarıkaya characterized him as a nonconformist.[2]
Born inIstanbul,Turkey, Cansever attended Trade Academy for some time, and worked as an antiquity salesman inGrand Bazaar, Istanbul.[citation needed] Despite his denial,[citation needed] he is considered to be a member of second new generation:
The poetry of Edip Cansever has two main characteristics: Being the proof of his life and the result of his poetry craftsmanship. A new essence, a new verse form reaches the niveau of simpleness only after undergoing a layered process of craftmanship. Being an opposer of rigid forms makes him an artist of theIkinci Yeni movement. His accomplished revolutionizing of rigid forms comes from the urge of the essence (Doğan Hızlan, 1983)[full citation needed].
He developedobjective correlative beforeT. S. Eliot's work was translated into Turkish, afterward being inspired by Eliot's development and stating he saw the concept as essential to his own poetry's "decoration".[3]
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