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Birhan
Keskin comes to the fore from her contemporaries with her language, the
sincerity of the way of her speaking and her masterity. Keskin mentions
existential problems like death and time in her poems. In the poems that appear
in Cold Excavation, Keskin who navigates
in the tunnels of loneliness and death, questions time and while she does that
she benefits from folklor, history and Greek myth. Keskin poetises the
adventure of human in this world based on the oppositeness of fire and water
with geological terms and the way of speaking of the folk in Cold Excavation. The adventure of
creation of the world and human kind resembles an archaelogic excavation. In
the poems like “Tuff’”, “Cold Excavation”, “the things that covers on the water”,
“Flamingo I”, “Flamingo II”, “Flamingo III”, “Everything is in the hands of
merchants now” that appear in Cold
Excavation that occurs from three parts (Cold Excavation, The Strict Habbit
of The World, Cold Excavation), Keskin creates the atmosphere of dream in
places with the expressions that symbolises the feeling of strangeness,
disjointness, miscommunication of person. Birhan Keskin reflects the
unhappiness of person who can’t fit in to the layers of world while she
separates the layers of word with the poems that complating, lying and  making reference to each other in Cold Excavation. While she poetises the
person who gets stuck between reality and dream, she pushes the posibilities of
language.