snow hurling on the window of the hospital room and the wind howling; I will be a poet! And I became". The first published poem of Necip Fazıl is "Kitabe", a poem that was later included in his book Örümcek Ağı (Spider Web) with the title "Bir Mezar Taşı"(A Gravestone); it was also published in the Yeni Mecmua (New Magazine) dated 1 July 1923. By 1939, his poems and articles were appearing in magazines such as Yeni Mecmua, Milli Mecmua, Anadolu, Hayat and Varlık, and Cumhuriyet newspaper. After returning home from Paris in 1925, Necip Fazıl stayed in Ankara intermittently. On his third visit, he published a magazine called Ağaç on 14 March 1936 by providing the support of some banks. Ağaç, the writers of which included Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Ahmet Kutsi Tecer and Mustafa Şekip Tunç, decided to follow a spiritualist and idealist line on the contrary to the materialist and Marxist ideas supported by the writers such as Burhan Belge, Vedat Nedim Tör, Şevket Süreyya Aydemir and İsmail Hüsrev Tökin of closed Kadro magazine owned by Yakup Kadri and which influenced the intellectuals of the time greatly. Kısakürek later transferred to Ağaç (Tree) magazine published during six volumes in Ankara to İstanbul, however, unable to establish a viable reader base, the magazine was closed at the 17th volume. Necip Fazıl next began to publish the magazine called Büyük Doğu (Great East). Starting in 1943, the magazine was published intermittently as weekly, daily and monthly. In 1978, he was prosecuted because of his controversial articles and publications and the magazine was forced to close. Necip Fazıl also published a political humor magazine called Borazan (Bugle), of which only three volumes were published. Bibliography Poetry Örümcek Ağı (1925) (Spider Web) Kaldırımlar (1928) (Pavements) Ben ve Ötesi (1932) (Me and Beyond) Sonsuzluk Kervanı (1955) (Caravan of Infinity) Çile I (1962) (Anguish I) Şiirlerim (My poems) (1969) Esselâm (1973) (Welcome) Çile II (1974) (Anguish II) Bu Yağmur (This Rain) Canım İstanbul (My Dear Istanbul) Novels Aynadaki Yalan (1980) (The Lie in the Mirror) Kafa Kağıdı (1984-Published as a series in Milliyet newspaper) Stories Birkaç Hikâye Birkaç Tahlil (1932) (Some Stories and Some Analyses) Ruh Burkuntularından Hikayeler (1964) (Stories From Soul Shatters) Hikâyelerim (1970) (My Stories) Memoirs Cinnet Mustatili (1955) (Rectangle of the Possessed) Hac (1973) (Hajj) O ve Ben (1974) (He and I) Bâbıâli (1975) (The Sublime Porte) Plays Bir Adam Yaratmak