Joshua L. Freeman is a cultural historian and a specialist in Uyghur literature at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. His translations of Uyghur poetry have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, and The Atlantic. His monograph The Poetry of Power: Uyghur National Culture in Twentieth-Century China is forthcoming from Columbia University Press.
‘I might walk endlessly’
A poem by Tahir Hamut Izgil, translated by Joshua L. Freeman.
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