‘Do you know that I am with you?’: Uighur poetry captures fading memories of home
China’s crackdown in Xinjiang has put Uighur poetry on the verge of extinction, leaving the diaspora stfighting to keep it alive
Uighur poetry is heir to a thousand-year tradition, stretching back to works like the eleventh-century Wisdom of Royal Glory, a lengthy philosophical treatise composed in rhymed couplets.
Subsequent centuries saw the rise of Persianate love poetry and mystical verse, and more recently the advent of Uighur modernism. The four poems below are modernistand draw on Uighur poetic legacy and the riches of Uighur culture.
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