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.

Thursday, October 07, 2010

Poetry posting once removed -- Simone Jacobson --

http://washingtonart.com/beltway/jacobson.html

Burmese American poet Simone Jacobson

is daughter of Jocelyn Law Yone, and grand daughter of the late U Law Yone, founder of the famous The Nation newspaper of democratic Burma prior to the 1962 coup.

Kyi May

KyiMayKaung

Thursday, October 07, 2010

Poetry posting once removed -- Simone Jacobson --

Salman Rushdie--Imaginary Homelands--esp. worth re-reading--Inside the Whale, Attenborough's Gandhi etc.

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