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The Burden of Being Burmese (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781938890161)
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x"The Burden of Being Burmese displays an extraordinary fertile and febrile imagination--one that will both delight and disturb American readers."--Marjorie Perloff
"A brilliantly off-kilter book."--John Ashbery
Ko Ko Thett writes that he is "a poet by choice and a Burmese by chance." The poems in this collection--the first major volume in English by a contemporary Burmese poet--range from "faddish sugar crystals," written in Burmese for his 1996 illegal campus chapbook in Yangon, to his autumn 2014 "anxiety attack" in the Netherlands, where he now lives. Thett is the co-editor and translator of the seminal volume Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets.
Author: Ko Ko Thett
ISBN-10: 1938890167
ISBN-13: 9781938890161
Publisher: Zephyr Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2015
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.80w x 0.40d
By Ko Ko Thett
xKo Ko Thett is a poet by choice and a Burmese by chance. The poems in this collection, many of which have appeared in English-language literary magazines worldwide, range from "faddish sugar crystals," written in Burmese for his 1996 illegal campus chapbook at the Yangon Institute of Technology, to his autumn 2014 "anxiety attack" at the University of Leuven. Apart from his own work as a writer and translator, he is the co-editor and translator of the seminal volume Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets, (ARC, 2012; Northern Illinois University Press 2013).
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