According to Kim, Zati, who mentored many poets, lacked a unique style that may be a result of his approach to poetry as a craft and his productivity. By drawing heavily on his University of Chicago dissertation, Kim reconstructs a vivid picture of the poet Zati, his circles, and his literary output, refreshing the field of Ottoman literary historical studies. In I The Last of an Age i , Sooyong Kim argues that Zati (1471-1546) was "the last of the great old poets whose names are to be wiped off the ledger" within a generation after them (p. 119). [Extracted from the article]