Poems of Mya Kabyar, Tin Nwan Lwin & Khaing Mar Kyaw Zaw linking themselves to each other

linking themselves to each other through translation and e-mails

was published by Salt Publishing in 2007 and won the Anne Elder award

author of six books of poetry in Chinese

poetic monologues…

these poems are sensually abstract and obstinately figurative

Poems of Mya Kabyar, Tin Nwan Lwin & Khaing Mar Kyaw Zaw linking themselves to each otherTranslated from the Burmese and introduced by Violet Cho & David Gilbert This is the first anthology that presents contemporary poems translated from Burmese writers on the cultural margins. The introduction situates the poems of Mya Kabyar, Tin Nwan Lwin and Khaing Mar Kyaw Zaw within a historical and cultural context and explores their significance in Burmese poetry. The three poets provide alternative voices to the dominant culture of Burmese