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Andrew Wessels

I’m a writer, translator, editor, book designer, and teacher. My first book is A Turkish Dictionary, published by 1913 Press. Semi Circle, a chapbook of my translations of the Turkish poet Nurduran Duman, was published by Goodmorning Menagerie. Find out more about me here.

Books and chapbooks

From Being Without Substance by Andrew Wessels

Recent publications

"I am Just with You" in Colorado Review, Spring 2019
Two translations of Nurduran Duman in Turkish Poetry Today 2017
"The Power to Trace Power: On Suzy Hansen’s 'Notes on a Foreign Country'" at Los Angeles Review of Books
"4. Verse" a translation from Nurduran Duman's Neynur series at Kenyon Review
"What I'm Reading Now..." at Tarpaulin Sky
"[Lying in folds...]" from That Sunshiny Field at The Enchanting Verses Literary Review
"Some Affinities: Documenting the Past" on Francis Alÿs, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, and Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914 at Entropy
"Some Affinities: The Language of Embodiment" on three new books by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Nik De Dominic, and Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel at Entropy
"Loving—And Leaving—Turkey in the Midst of Upheaval" on Istanbul, elections, global politics, xenophobia, publishing a book amid transition, and on a search for home at Literary Hub
"Some Affinities: Alder and Elder" on two new books by Wendy Burk and James Meetze at Entropy
A Turkish Dictionary, my first book published by 1913 Press
"All of These Are Afterthoughts" on the Turkish coup attempt, Istanbul, and Bilge Karasu's A Long Day's Evening for the 2016 Les Figues Read-a-thon
Three translations from Nurduran Duman's Neynur series at Asymptote