Tara Korkmaz, who translated this collection, shared the following with the Hawcherkh website: \u201cTranslating poems, such as those of Anwar Abasi into another language carries its own challenges and trials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Part of this challenge is to preserve the linguistic potential and original meaning attributed by the poet in the works, who, in a way, has morphed his words that have happened in a particular language into poetic verses. To convey the same semantics in another language without deviating from its original form, the translator must fully recreate them in the second language. In the translation of this book, I have tried to select those poems by Anwar Abasi that I had no trouble with them in this regard. That is why we chose the title (Songs<\/em> at a SUITABLE FREQUENCY from a 53Hz Whale<\/em>) so that we could reference this process. In the future, I look forward to translating Anwar\u2019s more linguistically complex poems into English for others to enjoy.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Tara Korkmaz holds an MFA degree in \u2018Documentary Media\u2019 from Ryerson University School of Image Arts in Toronto, Canada, and although she writes poetry herself, she is an interdisciplinary artist. Her creative work is not limited to literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n