Xinjiang Poems - Poems about Xinjiang

...they supped on Bjurholm drank Kumis dined on haggis and rubbed down with sassafras oil some made dessert from ackee fruit and had puffer fish and shark fin soup what word of satan they spoke......Read the rest...

...With my Uyghur poetry translations I am trying to build awareness of the plight of Uyghur poets who are being sent to Chinese "reeducation" concentration camps. Elegy by Perhat Tursun loose tran......Read the rest...

...Perhat Tursun Perhat Tursun (1969-) is one of the foremost living Uyghur language poets, if he is still alive. Born and raised in Atush, a city in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Tursun......Read the rest...

...The sand is stained red with our bygone blood, the blood that brought us from Ararat to the Alti, a tribe trekking intrepidly through the Eurasian terrain, caravans of Caucasians clad with Celtic......Read the rest...

...the solid rock, from its tallest perch was tumbling down, after navel – gazing – in songs of darkness ; had the hidden aloofness in space and time, i have become a tree, intend to teach the tr......Read the rest...