Part of Series
Ozanımız uluslararası bir çocuk kongresinde tasarlamış bu yapıtı. Büyük masanın kıyılarındaki 150 çocuk yazarını birdenbire 5, 6 yaşlarındaki çocukluklarıyla görmüştür. Daha sonra, onları kendi ülkelerinin coğrafyası, tarihi, başka özellikleri içinde düşleyerek 170’e yakın şiir yazmıştır. Yeryüzü Çocukları diye adlandırdığı bu yapıt, onun evrensel çocukluğunun tadını verir. Yüzük Parmağı bu yapıtın 4. kitabıdır. Yağmur göğün çocuğuydu Yaprak toprağın Yağmurun geldiği yıldızları Göremezdi ki yaprak.
Author
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca was born in 1914, in Istanbul. He graduated from Military Academy, and after fifteen years of service, he left the Turkish Armed Forces in 1950. Between 1952 and 1960, he was employed as an inspector; he retired in 1959 and dedicated himself to composing poetry. However, Dağlarca’s relationship with literature is rooted in his earliest ages. His literary career was launched at age thirteen, as he won first place in a story contest for students. Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca’s poems concentrated on the relationship between the human being and the cosmos, and on the relationship between nature and the supernatural. Yet, the poetry volumes that he published in the 1950s took a different twist and portrayed the relationship between the individual and society, and the relationship between the individual and nature. During the 1960s, social changes that took place in the country caught up with him, and he became increasingly sensitive to domestic and international issues, and aware of national interests. In his poems, he took a stance against exploitation, condemned imperialism, and sympathized with the struggle of abused peoples.
