The Remnants of Time

By T. Byram Karasu

In my most arrested hours
my soul is in need of others
I ring doors that never open,
peeling away all hopes
until the light darkens my sight,
I feed my mind to itself.

Suffused with wit and compassion, The Remnants of Time shares reflections on the profound depths of our inner life—a psychological tour-de-force in poetic form.

In his most recent collection, T. Byram Karasu offers poems that showcase technical ingenuity and immediacy of expression while illustrating the subtlety and delicacy of music within verse. With his remarkable wisdom, Karasu strips away all our self-consoling illusions, explores our mundane and existential anxieties, and frames our most tender and painful human emotions within exhilarating lyrical and linguistic complexity.

The Remnants of Time is a volume of poetic reflections on the profound depths of our inner life and our most tender and painful emotions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Jan 27, 2021
• ISBN: 9781665700603

T. Byram Karasu

T. Byram Karasu, M.D., is the Silverman Professor of Psychiatry and University Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Psychiatrist-in-Chief of Montefiore Medical Center. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including the seminal Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders and The Art of Serenity, a New York Times bestseller. He is editor in chief of the American Journal of Psychotherapy and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Karasu is a scholar, renowned clinician, teacher, and lecturer, and the recipient of numerous awards. He lives in New York City and Connecticut.

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Contents

Fragments of Tumbling Verse

Silence of a Loved One

Unforgotten

Absolute

Not Yielding

Vagueness

The First Session

Virtual Inner Life

Out of Town

Blameless

A Long Date

Self-Engendered

The Art of Healing

To Be In Your Element

Nothing at All

Secular Priest

The Way to Perdition

Too Good

Help

Fictive Man

Clemency

Tough Girl

Loitered Senses

Breaking Down

Unmeasurable

Lipless Smile

Yielding

Second Date

Therefore I Am

Breathless

Unannuable Self

Soft Fatigue

The Widower

Unbelievable

Unsubdued Regrets

Reel Yourself In

Learning Not to Love

In Search of Oracles

Dismissed

Undoing Discontent

Redundancy of Self

Unredeemable

Memories of Abuse

Yearning

Filial Love

Dilemma

To Be Whole Again

Love as Time Goes By

No Other Thoughts

Zenhole

Generic Advice

Lust-Polluted Love

Obtuse

Bachelor

Still Figuring Out

Being With

Where was I?

Slaving Daisies

Misanthrope

Casanova Circa 2000

Linear Itinerance

Rebirth

Irresistible

Alibi

A Chosen Life

Not Id-Ridden

She/He

Shades of Women

A Therapist/Patient

To Forget, Not

Clueless

Impulse

Vaguely Lost

Muted Canto

A Frail Divinity

Tells

The Accusation

The Loudest Silence

Unworldly

Unweaving

Invidious Bait

Occult Beam

Women’s Dilemma

A Soldier’s Return

Lingering Dreams

Which is Worse

Believing

Long Gone

To Love or Not to Love

Pious

Selfless

Lost

A Challenge

Unborn Love

Reckless

No Delivery

Dissonance

Divorce

Pillow Talk

An Encounter with a Dying Person

Nonsense

Befuddled

Lovability Trend

Ascent on the Social Ladder

Malice

You’ll be Alright

Cold Reality

Fear/Wish

Wedding Night

As Time Passes

When the Tide Ebbs

A Vacant Gloom

Self-Defiance

Self-Observing Self

To a Survivor

Angst

Zen-Cave

Self-Endeared

Lesser Sins

Empty Crib

Eclipsed

A Marital Survival

A Man’s Complaint

Malpractice of Life

One’s Truth

To Aylin

The Last Stand

Dearest Friend

Too Little to Ask

Aging Beauty

Zen-Noire

Tearless Weep

A Year Later

Unglued

Nightmare

The Excitement of Silence

Mutating Answers

Does Anyone Care?

Recess

Disapproval of Demise

Regrets

The Rest

A Eulogy

Dwindling Eternity

Uneasy

How It Ends

A Forgotten Tune

Dedication

To Syl

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Fragments of

Tumbling Verses

Homage to Cemil Karasu

Tu m’avouas, devant Dieu

en tempete profonde

rien n’a change dans le monde

ni de tempe, ni de lieu.

Cemil Karasu, Strasbourg, 1932

Bagrimda bir turbedir ruhumdaki acilar

onun ziyaretcisi hic donmeyen hacilar

Desti hazandan sunulan mey pek hos olurmus

Aksaclilardan buse alan sarhos olurmus

Her duklumune birbir sehname yazdiraydim

Her teline bir mezar, bir turbe koyduraydim

Cemil Karasu, Hasankale 1940

Y sourit, des levres inconnues

tout au fond de cette horreur

qui semblent oublieux

pour te rendre

La douleur nait de la joie.

Cemil Karasu,