Efe Murad is a Turkish poet, translator, and scholar of Islamic intellectual history. He is currently Assistant Professor at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice and an associate at Harvard University. He has published six poetry collections and translated ten books into Turkish, including the first complete version of Ezra Pound’s Cantos, as well as works by Jack Spicer, Thomas Bernhard, Susan Howe, and Lyn Hejinian. His bilingual poetry collection Breaking of Symmetry, a collaboration with quantum physicist Sina Zeytinoğlu and poet-artist Sevinç Çalhanoğlu, was published in a limited edition funded by the European Union Grant Scheme for Common Cultural Heritage. His recent work of creative non-fiction, The Pleasures of Empty Lots (Bored Wolves Press, 2021), is a memoiristic exploration of flânerie and poetry in his native Istanbul. Murad translates from Turkish, English, and Persian, and his work bridges experimental poetics and found text with Islamic intellectual traditions across languages, disciplines, and geographies.
Efe Murad is a Turkish poet, translator, and scholar of Islamic intellectual history. He is currently Assistant Professor at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice and an associate at Harvard University. He has published six poetry collections and translated ten books into Turkish, including the first complete version of Ezra Pound’s Cantos, as well as works by Jack Spicer, Thomas Bernhard, Susan Howe, and Lyn Hejinian. His bilingual poetry collection Breaking of Symmetry, a collaboration with quantum physicist Sina Zeytinoğlu and poet-artist Sevinç Çalhanoğlu, was published in a limited edition funded by the European Union Grant Scheme for Common Cultural Heritage. His recent work of creative non-fiction, The Pleasures of Empty Lots (Bored Wolves Press, 2021), is a memoiristic exploration of flânerie and poetry in his native Istanbul. Murad translates from Turkish, English, and Persian, and his work bridges experimental poetics and found text with Islamic intellectual traditions across languages, disciplines, and geographies.