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Three Karakalpak Poets: Berdaq, Ajiniyaz, Ibrayim Yusupov

Three Karakalpak Poets: Berdaq, Ajiniyaz, Ibrayim Yusupov

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Poetry Anthologies

ISBN13: 9798322494119
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 10 2024
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Three Karakalpak Poets is an English translation of selected poems by the founding fathers of Karakalpak literature, Berdaq (1827-1900) and Ajiniyaz (1824-1878), and the modern Karakalpak poet Ibrayim Yusupov (1929-2008). It brings one of the great Central Asian literatures, which draws on both folk poetry and classical Turkic-Persian poetry, to an English-speaking audience for the first time. The selection includes extracts from Berdaq's Chronicles, his legendary history of the Karakalpak people, Ajiniyaz's Bozataw, about the suppression of the 1858-1859 Qonirat uprising, and Yusupov's Aral Elegies, his sequence of environmental poems about the Aral Sea becoming a desert. The translations are by the English poet Andrew Staniland with the help of Karakalpak co-translators Gulbahar Izentaeva, Shaxnoza Kengesbay qizi, Aynura Nazirbaeva, Nilufar Bayrambaevna Abdullaeva, Nargiza Urazimbetova and Gulnaz Jadigerova.

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