Cyprus's Bad Period and The Passport You Asked For, are bundled together as two books in one volume - both about dislocation and diaspora.

Cyprus's Bad Period by Kenneth Rosen, the established and prolific poet, now professor emeritus with multiple stays abroad as a Fulbright-scholar and lecturer, conveys Professor Rosen's reflections through  his first hand, sometimes refreshingly mischievous observations on Cypriot dislocation and diaspora.

Cyprus's Bad Period paints the entanglements of an historical moment, not only through Greek and Turkish perspectives; but also from the multi-faceted cultural perspective, sometimes invoking Franz Kafka, the Czech Jew, and Marianne Moore, the wild Victorian American-Irish spinster, thus combining political insight and concern for informed ambiguity with a lyric precision honed over decades.

Adnan Adam Onart’s The Passport You Asked For deals with the history and culture of Tatar Crimea, and specifically with the unjust deportation and diaspora of Crimean Tatars. The book recreates such historical figures as Mengli Giray and Numan Çelebi Cihan, and proposes a modern rendition of the Çora Batır saga in five fictional fragments. The title of the book is drawn from a three-piece sequence describing the tragedy of Mahmut Musa. Nothing about Tatar culture would be complete without the tender celebration of Bozturgay and Çibörek; so the book contains two poems about them. Some of the poems are light-hearted in tone, expressing the conviction that no culture, no nation can mature without a degree of self-deprecation.

Since The Passport You Asked For is about Tatar dislocation, some poems reflect the daily life in Istanbul, and others life in in the USA; some touch to the heaviness of being a Muslim, a Turkish Muslim, in the United States post-9/11. The Passport You Asked for is dedicated to Mustafa Cemilev, leader of the Crimean Tatars' non-violent struggle for human rights and return to their ancestral homeland.

Both collections insist on the usefulness and authority of the entirely personal, poetic perspective on current  and historical events.

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Kenneth Rosen has published nine poetry collections, including Homo Politico (Cyprus, 2006) on the Middle East, plus hundreds of poems, stories and essays in American and international reviews and magazines. Living in Portland, Maine, he taught at the University of Southern Maine for forty years, four years as English Department chair, founding the Stonecoast Writers’ Conference, receiving numerous University awards, the two year endowed Russell Chair and publication of his lecture “A Spy in the House of the Thought Police.” Whole Horse, chosen by Richard Howard for Braziller Poetry Series, was a Pulitzer Prize nominee. Besides No Snake, No Paradise (Ascensius Press) and The Origins of Tragedy (CavanKerry Press), Howling Dog Press of Colorado will publish Gomorrah and American Love: A Manifesto.

Adnan Adam Onart is of Crimean Tatar descent. His poetry chronicles his Istanbul childhood and the largely neglected Crimean Tatar genocide perpetrated by Trasist Russia and sustained by the former USRR. He lives in Boston and published books and essays on philosophy, linguistics and mathematical logic. His poetry inTurkish has appeared in  Soyut, Yordam, Kardaş Edebiyatlar, Kırım and Dergah and in English in The Boston Poet, Prairie Schooner, Colere Magazine, Red Wheel Barrow, The Massachusetts Review. He is author of Turkish: A Dictionary of Delights, introduced and edited by Roger L. Conover.

All proceeds from the sale of CYPRUS'S BAD PERIOD/THE PASSPORT YOU ASKEDFOR, when purchased from co-author Adnan Adam Onart,  will go directly to  educational programs which benefit Crimean Tatar children: DOST Crimean Women's Humanitarian League of America, Inc.