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Tahir Hamut Izgil

Tahir Hamut Izgil

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Tahir Hamut Izgil

China

Tahir Hamut Izgil was born in 1969 in a small town near Kashgar, in the southwest of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. He published his first poem in 1986, and has since been recognized as one of the foremost modernist poets writing in Uyghur....

His poetry has appeared in translation in Asymptote, Off the Coast, Crazy Horse, and elsewhere. Since the late ’90s he has worked as a film director, founding his own production company and achieving recognition for his feature films, documentaries, and other projects. He currently lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and two daughters.

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Articles by Tahir Hamut Izgil

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The Radio

By Tahir Hamut Izgil

They were marching along a man with his hands tied behind his back and a tall paper hat on his head.

Translated from Uyghur by Joshua L. Freeman

Phone Call

By Tahir Hamut Izgil

On a mattress / amidst an armful of hair / a beautiful woman tosses and turns

Translated from Uyghur by Joshua L. Freeman

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A Night Sama

By Tahir Hamut Izgil

Their wailing won’t let me sleep, won’t let me sleep . . .

Translated from Uyghur by Darren Byler & Anonymous Uyghur Translator

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The Past

By Tahir Hamut Izgil

The world made no promises to anyone

Translated from Uyghur by Joshua L. Freeman

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