Perhat Tursun 'elegy' Translation Comments
Perhat Tursun
Perhat Tursun (1969-) is one of the foremost living Uyghur language poets, if he is still alive. Born and raised in Atush, a city in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Tursun began writing poetry in middle school, then branched into prose in college. Tursun has been described as a 'self-professed Kafka character' and that comes through splendidly in poems of his like 'Elegy.' Unfortunately, Tursun was 'disappeared' into a Chinese 'reeducation' concentration camp where extreme psychological torture is the norm. According to a disturbing report he was later 'hospitalized.' Apparently no one knows his present whereabouts or condition, if he has one. According to John Bolton, when Donald Trump learned of these 'reeducation' concentration camps, he told Chinese President Xi Jinping it was 'exactly the right thing to do.' Trump's excuse? 'Well, we were in the middle of a major trade deal.'
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7/23/2025 10:11:37 PM # 1.0.0
Unfortunately, in oppressive and dictatorial countries, human beings has no value except when they knelt to the executioner, there are nation imprisoned in the name of the regime and the development of the economy, this tragic poetry depicted for us the tragedy of human slavery in the twenty-first century, this poetry deserves a big applause even if its writer is unknown fate, but his soul Talk to us, excellent poem and brilliant translation