Uyghurland : the farthest exile : selected poems /
Ahmatjan Osman ; translated from the Uyghur and Arabic by Jeffrey Yang and Ahmatjan Osman.
Bok Engelsk 2015
Flere språk: Arabisk
| Originaltittel | [ Poems. .] English
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| Omfang | xiii, 163 pages ;
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| Utgave | First edition.
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| Opplysninger | From The second fall (1998) -- From The mystery of weddings (1990) -- From Ode to a Uyghur girl (1992) -- From Guardian of the self (1997) -- From As though (1998) -- From In ruins of Sumer where I reside (2003) -- From My share of the night (2007). - "In Jeffrey Yang's collaborative translations from the Uyghur and Arabic, Uyghurland, the farthest exile collects over two decades of Ahmatjan Osman's poetry. Osman, the foremost Uyghur poet of his generation, channels his ancestors alongside Mallarmé and Rimbaud to capture the sacred and philosophical, the ineffable and the transient, in a wholly unique 'lyric voice. Born in i 1964, Osman grew up in Urumqi, the capital and largest city of East Turkistan: ln 1982, he became one of the first Uyghur students to study abroad after the end of the Cultural Revolution, spending several years studying Arabic literature at Damascus University in Syria. Uyghurlandisthe first-ever collection of poetry to be translated from the Uyghur language into English."--page 4 of cover.
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| ISBN | 1939419123 (pbk.). - 9781939419125 (pbk.)
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