Prinzenbad by Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç, translated by Özgecan Kesici-Ayoubi Basho Taran Spalding-Jenkin

Taran Spalding-Jenkin

as an under-surveillance alien in a public garden

"Jordi Doce has opened up a space in Spanish poetry for understanding an incomprehensible existence

consuming desire

where he is now a Life Fellow

Prinzenbad by Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç, translated by Özgecan Kesici-Ayoubi Basho Taran Spalding-JenkinPrinzenbad by Ozan Zakariya Keskinkl, translated by zgecan Kesici Ayoubi, is a formally dexterous, politically charged collection that blends lyric, prose, and autofictional modes to interrogate identity, surveillance, migration, and desire. Drawing on Islamic, diasporic, queer, and pop cultural reference points, the poems enact a poetics of refusal and reclamation, at once intimate and defiant. Keskinkl's language is inventive and polyglot, weaving