Wednesday, July 09, 2014

Summer reading from me--Black Rice



Black Rice is a Burmese man with very dark skin, almost purple, and almond eyes. What happens when he is captured in an ambush in Burma's delta in 1947, as ethnic strife rages, a year before Burma's Independence from Great Britain? Find out here as K.M. Kaung takes you on a heart stopping journey through life. An intensely flavored pill of a story in 48 pages. A view through oddly made eyes.

"You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, you've got to be taught, from year to year. . . ."

Song lyrics, Rogers and Hammerstein, South Pacific, the Broadway musical.

From 2007-3 Burmese poems translated and introduced by Kyi May Kaung (Ph.D.)

https://poeticinvention.blogspot.com/2007/03/3-burmese-poems-introduced-and.html