Title: The burden of being Burmese /
Authors: Ko Ko Thett, 1972-
Year: 2015
Subjects: Burmese poetry.; Burmese poetry; Burma Poetry.
Contents: to the navel of the earth -- panning for alluvial gold [at the confluence of her dreams] -- bullhorns in the passing lane -- a few ways to eat a city raw -- the boomtown -- chaos clock -- welcome to the fort town of ba htoo -- lawksawk -- neue donau [the new danube] -- akdeniz [the white sea] -- urban renewal -- faddish sugar crystals -- permanent installations -- coup d'état -- sad [seasonal affective disorder] -- lady's fingers -- how to roast an osturducken [and get away with it] -- i swim -- fuck me untied -- after "the lie of art" -- hallowe'en -- blindfolded brahmins -- a walk with history -- myanma: a collage -- cut -- my generation is best -- no football color -- timely applause and toothy smiles -- corpse flower blooms in washington -- the mandalay gazette 1885 -- pyongyang people's daily -- child corpses -- the 5000th -- i told you there's a fire -- the rain maker -- anxiety attack -- faith supper -- the burden of being bama -- no romance love -- the day he regretted swimming butterfly [across the baltic with a beer can in his hand] -- strawman story -- strawman [in re-verse] -- i've seen death -- water elephant -- monosodium glutamate -- monsoon -- encomium for mr. yew -- cuban fish-head soup.