Research Catalog

Title

The burden of being Burmese / poems by Ko Ko Thett.

Author

Ko Ko Thett, 1972-

Publication

[Brookline, Massachusetts] : Zephyr Press : MCCM Creations, 2015.

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Details

Description

101 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

"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" --

Subject

• Burmese poetry
• Burma > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Note

• "The poems in this collection, many of which have appreared in English-language liberary magazines worldwide, rangr 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"-- Afterword.

Language (note)

• Some English text includes corresponding Burmese text.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

to the navel of the earth -- panning for alluvial gold [at the confluence of her dreams] -- bullhorns in the passing lane -- a few ways to eat a city raw -- the boomtown -- chaos clock -- welcome to the fort town of ba htoo -- lawksawk -- neue donau [the new danube] -- akdeniz [the white sea] -- urban renewal -- faddish sugar crystals -- permanent installations -- coup d'état -- sad [seasonal affective disorder] -- lady's fingers -- how to roast an osturducken [and get away with it] -- i swim -- fuck me untied -- after "the lie of art" -- hallowe'en -- blindfolded brahmins -- a walk with history -- myanma: a collage -- cut -- my generation is best -- no football color -- timely applause and toothy smiles -- corpse flower blooms in washington -- the mandalay gazette 1885 -- pyongyang people's daily -- child corpses -- the 5000th -- i told you there's a fire -- the rain maker -- anxiety attack -- faith supper -- the burden of being bama -- no romance love -- the day he regretted swimming butterfly [across the baltic with a beer can in his hand] -- strawman story -- strawman [in re-verse] -- i've seen death -- water elephant -- monosodium glutamate -- monsoon -- encomium for mr. yew -- cuban fish-head soup.

ISBN

• 1938890167
• 9781938890161

OCLC

• 907653092
• SCSB-10669093

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library