http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1971/neruda-lecture-e.html
I too "did not learn" to write poetry in MFA courses, and Chile is very like Burma, without the glaciers, but isolated within a pocket of the sea and high (Himalayas) and not so high (the Burmese mountain ranges or yoma -- "spines")mountain ranges.
I left on what turned out to be a one way passport.
But many walked out as Neruda did.
One day I will post my Neruda-inspired poem which was chosen by Ram Deveneni and Marilyn Hacker for a Rattapallax CD.
Blog text copyright Kyi May Kaung.
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https://reedsy.com/discovery/blog/best-post-apocalyptic-books
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The maker of this replica seems to have assumed, anomalously, that the corner towers were in the Banteay Srei style -- visually, as you can ... -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua55nu0X_Ro