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Title Bones will crow : an anthology of Burmese poetry / edited by Ko Ko Thett and James Byrne
Published DeKalb, Il : NIU Press, [2013]
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Contents Cover -- BONES WILL CROW -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Foreword- Ruth Padel -- Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- Zeyar Lynn -- TIN MOE -- Biographical note -- from The Years We Didn't See the Dawn -- Desert Years -- from A Standard Human Wish -- Meeting with the Buddha -- THITSAR Nl -- Biographical note -- from Redundant Sentences -- Untitled 1 -- Handwalking -- Obituary -- Untitled 3 -- AUNG CHEIMT -- Biographical note -- Aung Cheimt Goes to the Cinema -- Flashback Journal -- After Prufrock's 'Love Song' -- You Will Read -- MA El -- Biographical note
A Letter for Lovers and Haters -- A Catastrophic Rune -- My Island -- Weather Forecast -- MAUNG CHAW NWE -- Biographical note -- Mr. Charley -- A Sun-ripened Song -- Harbour -- Unpopular Chap -- MAUNG PYIYT MIN -- Biographical note -- A Bunch of 52 Keys -- Shall I Plunge into a Big Bummer? -- The Last Element -- Yearning -- KHIN AUNG AYE -- Biographical note -- Achilles' Heel -- 2010 the curvaceousness of Burmese poetry -- State of Unhappiness -- gun and cheese -- ZEYARLYNN -- Biographical note -- My History is Not Mine -- The Ways of the Beards -- Slide Show -- Sling Bag -- MAUNG THEIN ZAW
Biographical note -- the heat bearer -- mantra -- deva right in front of dukkha -- clue -- MOE ZAW -- Biographical note -- Rose, 1985 -- Vera -- Story -- Moonless Night -- Three Friends -- MOE WAY -- Biographical note -- If You Need To Piss -- Watch Out Maung Maung -- Misfits within Limits -- Vuvuzela -- So the Library, So Also the Museum -- KO KO THETT -- Biographical note -- panning for alluvial gold -- timely applause and toothy smiles -- the burden of being bama -- from permanent installations -- EAINDRA -- Biographical note -- Lullaby for a Night -- Lily -- Pitch for a Playful Mind
Molly, Whose Tank Has Been Emptied -- The Day (Before That Day) -- PANDORA -- Biographical note -- The Scene of the City Siege by the Daft -- An Evening with a City Girl -- Entertainment -- The Sniper -- MAUNG YU PY -- Biographical note -- Just Like This, Again This Time -- Yangon 2010 -- A UFO Sighting -- Under the Great Ice Sheet -- Glossary of Burmese Terms -- Biographical Notes on Editors & Translators
Subject Burmese poetry -- Translations into English
Burmese poetry
Genre/Form Translations
Form Electronic book
Author Ko Ko Thett, 1972- editor.
Byrne, James, 1977- editor.
Merrill, Christopher, translator.
Bowman, Vicky, translator.
Lynn, Zeyar, translator
Pandora, translator
ISBN 9781609090869
1609090861