Uyghur PoemsBy: Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS The Uyghur people of Central Asia have a long and distinguished tradition of poetry indeed, their first oral epic was circulating as early as the 2nd century BCE. In the medieval period Sufi poetry flourished, embracing Persian forms such as the ghazal, which spoke eloquently of beauty, love, loss and separation. A major poet, Alshir Navayi (1441 1501) fully established classical Turkic or Chagatai as a