KyiMayKaung

Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Sylvia Plath interview part 1.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6RRWf8woPM&feature=related

and part 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFLNL5EyPOg&feature=related

There is nobody now writing like Plath or Sexton.

Poetry in America has become very academic and similar sounding. Detached and distant.
MFA poetry, I call it.

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Sunday, April 12, 2009

Sylvia Plath interview part 1.

OMG--Alun Lewis is buried in Htaukkyan War Cemetery--near Rangoon.

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