做緬族人的壓力

　　This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-two titles published for 2015 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2015 is “Poetry and Conflict”. 21 international poets from 18 different places are invited to participate in recitations, symposia and sharing sessions of the Poetry Nights. A recitation focusing on 10 local Hong Kong poets, “Hong Kong Cantonese Poetry Night” is included. This collection seeks to make accessible the best of contemporary international poetry with outstanding translations.

the burden of being bama   6
做緬族人的壓力
 
the boomtown   12
新興都市
 
anxiety attack   16
焦慮來襲
 
water elephant   20
水象
 
blindfolded brahmins   24
蒙住雙眼的婆羅門
 
child corpses   33
孩童屍體
 
corpse flower blooms in Washington   37
泰坦魔芋花在華盛頓盛開
 
cut   39
削減
 
fuck me untied   45
操沒有解開的我
 
the rain maker   49
造雨者
 
timely applause and toothy smiles   53
及時的掌聲和露齒微笑
 
strawman story   56
稻草人故事
 
strawman [in re-verse]   58
稻草人（反讀）

作者簡介



科科瑟

　　生於1972年，當代緬甸詩人。他現居維也納，用緬甸文和英文兩種語言寫作。他的第一本英文詩集《生為緬甸人》（2015）收錄從1996年被禁止發表的小詩集到2014年在比利時魯汶大學的近作。此外，他編輯和翻譯的《白骨呻吟：當代緬甸詩人十五家》（2013）由北伊利諾伊大學出版。

　　ko ko thett was born in 1972, and is a poet by choice and a Burman by chance. The poems in his first English-language collection, The Burden of Being Burmese (2015), range from “faddish sugar crystals,” written in Burmese for his illegal campus chapbook at the Yangon Institute of Technology in 1996, to his most recent work “anxiety attack,” constructed at the University of Leuven in 2014. He is co-editor of the seminal volume Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets (Northern Illinois University Press, 2013).