Seda Mimaroğlu is a poet, writer, and artist from Istanbul with an academic background in law, literature, art history, and philosophy.

On Love Songs

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"Gentle and radical, intricate and painfully open, Seda Mimaroğlu's Love Songs demonstrate that, despite everything, poetry is still capable of making things happen. Good news for the troubled times—and a book that will definitely find devoted readers."

 

—Maria Stepanova, author of In Memory of Memory  
 

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"A play. Situations.

Situations she gets herself into, or has been nudged towards, amiable mostly, then turning around. Less a quest and more a reception, more a finding. A system. Flickering light on letters. A tingle beneath the skin. She is a keen observer. Inspection spells introspection.

She moves about in the space. Her eyes sweep over the diorama, over bodies, their relationships to and among each other, a record-keeping process, saving, caching, for a subsequent visit, revisiting, mingling again with the gang, later, when it gets dark outside or the day dawns; now they send signals, the rested thoughts behind closed lids, and her fingers dance over the keys.

A play of lights. Reflektionen."

 

—Andreas Reihse, composer, musician and artist; member of the band Kreidler