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Bones Will Crow: An Anthology of Burmese Poetry
This is the first anthology of contemporary Burmese poets published in the United States and it includes the work of Burmese poets who have been in exile and in prison. The poems include global references from a culture in which foreign books and the Internet are regarded with suspicion and where censorship is an industry. The poets have been ingenious in their use of metaphor to escape surveillance and censorship, writing post-modern, avant-garde, performance, and online poetries. The anthology reveals the transition of Burmese poetry from traditionalism to modernism, as well as the development of Burmese poetry over the second half of the twentieth century, as Myanmar has changed. Through their wildly diverse styles, these poems delight in the freedom to experiment with poetic tradition.

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Bones Will Crow: An Anthology of Burmese Poetry
This is the first anthology of contemporary Burmese poets published in the United States and it includes the work of Burmese poets who have been in exile and in prison. The poems include global references from a culture in which foreign books and the Internet are regarded with suspicion and where censorship is an industry. The poets have been ingenious in their use of metaphor to escape surveillance and censorship, writing post-modern, avant-garde, performance, and online poetries. The anthology reveals the transition of Burmese poetry from traditionalism to modernism, as well as the development of Burmese poetry over the second half of the twentieth century, as Myanmar has changed. Through their wildly diverse styles, these poems delight in the freedom to experiment with poetic tradition.

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Bones Will Crow: An Anthology of Burmese Poetry

Bones Will Crow: An Anthology of Burmese Poetry

Bones Will Crow: An Anthology of Burmese Poetry

Bones Will Crow: An Anthology of Burmese Poetry

Overview

This is the first anthology of contemporary Burmese poets published in the United States and it includes the work of Burmese poets who have been in exile and in prison. The poems include global references from a culture in which foreign books and the Internet are regarded with suspicion and where censorship is an industry. The poets have been ingenious in their use of metaphor to escape surveillance and censorship, writing post-modern, avant-garde, performance, and online poetries. The anthology reveals the transition of Burmese poetry from traditionalism to modernism, as well as the development of Burmese poetry over the second half of the twentieth century, as Myanmar has changed. Through their wildly diverse styles, these poems delight in the freedom to experiment with poetic tradition.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780875806914
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 05/01/2013
Edition description: 1st Edition
Pages: 172
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

ko ko thett grew up in Burma. By the early 1990s, he was thoroughly poeticized and politicized at Rangoon Institute of Technology. In 1996 he published and clandestinely distributed two uncensored chapbooks on the campus. He left the country in 1997 following a brief detention for his role in the December 1996 student uprising in Rangoon. ko ko thett has written extensively for several Burma journals and leading papers in Finland.

James Byrne is the editor and co-founder of The Wolf poetry magazine. His debut collection, Passages of Time, was published by Flipped Eye in 2003. Blood / Sugar is his second collection. He is also the co-editor of Voice Recognition, an anthology of British and Irish poets under 35, and The Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees.

Table of Contents

Foreword Ruth Padel 11

Editors' Preface 15

Introduction Zeyar Lynn 17

Biographical note Tin Moe 25

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from The Years We Didn't See the Dawn 27

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Desert Years 33

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from A Standard Human Wish 35

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Meeting with the Buddha 37

Biographical note Thitsar Ni 45

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from Redundant Sentences 47

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Untitled 1 53

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Handwalking 53

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Obituary 55

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Untitled 3 57

Biographical note Aung Cheimt 61

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Aung Cheimt Goes to the Cinema 63

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Flashback Journal 65

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After Prufrock's Love Song' 69

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You Will Read 73

Biographical note Ma Ei 79

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A Letter for Lovers and Haters 81

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A Catastrophic Rune 85

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My Island 87

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Weather Forecast 89

Biographical note Maung Chaw New 95

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Mr. Charley… 97

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A Sun-ripened Song 99

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Harbour 101

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Unpopular Chap 107

Biographical note Maung Pyiyt Min 119

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A Bunch of 52 Keys 121

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Shall I Plunge into a Big Bummer? 123

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The Last Element 127

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Yearning 129

Biographical note Khin Aung Aye 133

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Achilles' Heel 135

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2010 the curvaceousness of Burmese poetry 139

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State of Unhappiness… 141

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gun and cheese 143

Biographical note Zeyar Lynn 147

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My History is Not Mine 149

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The Ways of the Beards 151

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Slide Show 153

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Sling Bag 159

Biographical note Maung Thein Zaw 165

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the heat bearer 167

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mantra 169

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deva right in front of dukkhaf 169

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clue 171

Biographical note Moe Zaw 175

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Rose, 1985 177

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Vera 181

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Story 181

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Moonless Night 183

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Three Friends 185

Biographical note Moe Way 191

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If You Need To Piss… 193

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Watch Out Maung Maung… 195

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Misfits within Limits 197

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Vuvuzela 199

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So the Library, So Also the Museum 203

Biographical note Ko Ko Thett 207

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panning for alluvial gold… 209

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timely applause and toothy smiles 211

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the burden of being bama 213

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from permanent installations 217

Biographical note Eaindra 221

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Lullaby for a Night 223

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Lily 223

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Pitch for a Playful Mind 227

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Molly, Whose Tank Has Been Emptied 229

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The Day(Before That Day) 231

Biographical note Pandora 237

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The Scene of the City Siege by the Daft 239

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An Evening with a City Girl 241

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Entertainment 245

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The Sniper 247

Biographical note Maung Yu Py 251

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Just Like This, Again This Time 253

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Yangon 2010 255

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A UFO Sighting… 257

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Under the Great Ice Sheet 259

Glossary of Burmese Terms 263

Biographical Notes on Editors & Translators 265

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