{"product_id":"the-burden-of-being-burmese-paperback","title":"The Burden of Being Burmese - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKo Ko Thett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Burden of Being Burmese \u003c\/i\u003edisplays an extraordinary fertile and febrile imagination--one that will both delight and disturb American readers.--Marjorie Perloff\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA brilliantly off-kilter book.--John Ashbery\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKo 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 \u003ci\u003eBones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKo 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).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.9 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769892471072,"sku":"9781938890161","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8a00a523fd5253fd9f09aac31a3355ba.webp?v=1780359093","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-burden-of-being-burmese-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}