{"product_id":"the-burden-of-being-burmese-9781938890161","title":"The Burden of Being Burmese","description":"\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\u003e\"A 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-6891955\"\u003eKo Ko Thett\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Zephyr Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.80w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781938890161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1938890167\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE009000\"\u003eAsian | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Zephyr Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44589375946989,"sku":"9781938890161","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_d4ca1dfd-f8a2-4d34-9e9a-457ffcfb6f7a.jpg?v=1702239358","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-burden-of-being-burmese-9781938890161","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}