Bones Will Crow

by James Byrne

This is the first anthology of contemporary Burmese poets published in the United States and it includes the work of Burmese poets who have been in exile and in prison. The poems include global references from a culture in which foreign books and the Internet are regarded with suspicion and where censorship is an industry. The poets have been ingenious in their use of metaphor to escape surveillance and censorship, writing post-modern, avant-garde,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875806910
• ISBN13: 9780875806914
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher