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The Burden of Being Burmese

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
104 Seiten
Englisch
Zephyr Presserschienen am29.10.2015
An exploration of the possibility of the translatability of lived experience between the personal and the political.mehr

Produkt

KlappentextAn exploration of the possibility of the translatability of lived experience between the personal and the political.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-938890-16-1
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2015
Erscheinungsdatum29.10.2015
Seiten104 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 154 mm, Höhe 204 mm, Dicke 10 mm
Gewicht224 g
Artikel-Nr.34528127
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GenreRomane Taschenbuch

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
3to the navel of the earth 6panning for alluvial gold [at the confluence of her dreams] 8bullhorns in the passing lane10a few ways to eat a city raw13the boomtown15chaos clock19welcome to the fort town of ba htoo21lawksawk24neue donau [the new danube]26akdeniz [the white sea]28urban renewal30faddish sugar crystals31permanent installations34coup d´état35sad [seasonal affective disorder]36lady´s fingers37how to roast an osturducken [and get away with it]38i swim39fuck me untied41after the lie of art 43hallowe´en45blindfolded brahmins48a walk with history50myanma: a collage53cut55my generation is best57no football color58timely applause and toothy smiles59corpse flower blooms in washington60the mandalay gazette 188562pyongyang people´s daily64child corpses66the 5000th69i told you there´s a fire71the rain maker73anxiety attack75f a i t h s u p p e r76the burden of being bama78no romance love79the day he regretted swimming butterfly[across the baltic with a beer can in his hand]80strawman story81strawman [in re-verse]82i´ve seen death85water elephant86monosodium glutamate88monsoon89encomium for mr. yew91cuban fish-head soup 93Notes 101Afterwordmehr

Autor

Ko 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).