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.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Towards the Splendid City -- 1971 Nobel Lecture by Chilean poet -Pablo Neruda --

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.

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Towards the Splendid City -- 1971 Nobel Lecture by Chilean poet -Pablo Neruda --

Myanmar--Can the country ever rebuild?---Doubtful--warning--graphic.

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