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Ko Ko Thett The Burden of Being Burmese (Paperback). "Marjorie Perloff"A brilliantly off-kilter book. Author: Ko Ko Thett. Format: Paperback. Item Weight: 213g. Condition: New. Country/Region of Manufacture: US. Language: English. ISBN-10: 1938890167. Further DetailsTitle: The Burden of Being Burmese Condition: New Author: Ko Ko Thett Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 1938890167 EAN: 9781938890161 ISBN: 9781938890161 Publisher: Zephyr Press Genre: Poetry & Drama Release Date: 10/29/2015 Description: "The Burden of Being Burmese displays an extraordinary fertile and febrile imaginationone that will both delight and disturb American readers."Marjorie Perloff"A brilliantly off-kilter book."John AshberyKo Ko Thett writes that he is "a poet by choice and a Burmese by chance." The poems in this collectionthe first major volume in English by a contemporary Burmese poetrange 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 Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 203mm Item Length: 152mm Item Weight: 213g Release Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.