{"product_id":"uyghurland-the-farthest-exile-the-furthest-exile-9781939419125","title":"Uyghurland, the Farthest Exile: The Furthest Exile","description":"In Jeffrey Yang's collaborative translations from the Uyghur and Arabic, \u003ci\u003eUyghurland, the Farthest Exile\u003c\/i\u003e 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 1964, Osman grew up in Urumqi, the capital and largest city of East Turkistan. In 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. \u003ci\u003eUyghurland\u003c\/i\u003e is the first-ever collection of poetry to be translated from the Uyghur language into English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-8915777\"\u003eAhmatjan Osman\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Phoneme Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781939419125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1939419123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE009000\"\u003eAsian | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAhmatjan Osman\u003c\/b\u003e, born in 1964, is among the foremost Uyghur poets of his generation. He grew up in Urumchi, the capital and the largest city of East Turkistan. Osman writes in both Uyghur and Arabic, and he has also translated the work of numerous poets into Uyghur, such as Octavio Paz, Paul Celan, Fernando Pessoa, and Adonis. He is recognized as one of the founders and leading lights of the New Poetry movement that emerged in Uyghur literary circles in the 1980s. His own literary influences range from modernists like Paul Celan and the Syrian poet Adonis to classical Uyghur authors like the 18th-century Sufi poet Meshrep. He is the author of eight collections of poetry, published in Syria and Xinjiang. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeffrey Yang\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the poetry books \u003ci\u003eVanishing-Line\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAn Aquarium\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the translator of Su Shi's \u003ci\u003eEast Slope\u003c\/i\u003e and Liu Xiaobo's \u003ci\u003eJune Fourth Elegies\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eBirds, Beasts, and Seas: Nature Poems from New Directions\u003c\/i\u003e and, with Natasha Wimmer, \u003ci\u003eTwo Lines: Some Kind of Beautiful Signal\u003c\/i\u003e, which contained a special feature on Uyghur poetry. He works as an editor at New Directions Publishing and New York Review Books and lives in New York City. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoneme Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44437045674221,"sku":"9781939419125","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_c9e2f0b5-e029-408c-ae1d-5c4f585b52bd.jpg?v=1700120585","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/uyghurland-the-farthest-exile-the-furthest-exile-9781939419125","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}