Saturday, May 05, 2012

Burmese poet Aung Way - footage from 2007 Saffron Revolution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tccS9LYgYyg (in Burmese) Aung Way calls himself a political poet or a poetic politician and describes poetry as his weapon of choice. He also says "a poet is a parallel government". Kyi May Kaung

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala--I have a volume of her short stories--which I like a great deal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Prawer_Jhabvala