{"id":21146,"date":"2025-12-30T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=21146"},"modified":"2025-12-30T13:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:08:12","slug":"meryem-yildiz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/meryem-yildiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Meryem Yildiz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Meryem Yildiz is is an accomplished poet of Turkish and French Canadian descent based in Tiohti\u00e0:ke (Montreal), whose work has been featured in publications across Canada. Yildiz has a background in psychology and translation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Backbone<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Backbone<\/em>\u00a0by Meryem Yildiz stretches from the shores of the St. Lawrence River in Montreal to the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul, charting a course through the fractured landscapes of identity and selfhood. Through breathy narratives and compact, distilled moments, Yildiz confronts the weight of trauma and the shifting sands of cultural identity, revealing how these forces shape, and reshape, the body and spirit. As she navigates chronic pain, displacement, and the memories that linger, the speaker asks, \u201cWho am I if I don\u2019t recognize myself?\u201d At the heart of this debut is the deeply intimate bond between the speaker and Clara, a steadfast friend whose presence transcends boundaries and anchors the quest for belonging.\u00a0Backbone<\/em>\u00a0is a testament to the transformative power of human connection and the capacity for renewal amidst the struggles of identity and experience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Meryem Yildiz personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meryem Yildiz is is an accomplished poet of Turkish and French Canadian descent based in Tiohti\u00e0:ke (Montreal), whose work has been featured in publications across Canada. Yildiz has a background in psychology and translation. Poetry Backbone Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2025. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21146","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21146"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21154,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21146\/revisions\/21154"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}