Selected poems reflect on inheritance, value, and the fragile structures that shape collective life. The Heirs examines emotional and social legacy through the language of architecture, economy, and displacement, questioning who determines beginnings and endings in a world governed by money and exclusion. Unit of Measurement: Human moves into a more abstract register, using the image of a bridge to explore distance, division, and the search for truth between opposing positions.
Together, the poems juxtapose material and metaphysical scales, proposing the human being as both measure and measured—caught between systems of power, perception, and meaning.
The project is part of the subtheme Disrupted Realities – Poetry and the Politics of Truth.
Author
Halil İbrahim Gül
Halil İbrahim Gül was born in Erzurum, Turkey, in 1998. He is a poet and researcher who focuses on the "architecture of emotions" and the boundary between the material world and philosophical inquiry. His work explores how we find truth within "shattered times" and inherited ruins, searching for a human measure in a fragmented world.
