I Am a Rohingya by James Byrne (English) Paperback Book

Description: I Am a Rohingya by James Byrne, Shehzar Doja "The Rohingya poets gathered here for the first time in English hold a mirror to the light for the rest of humanity, flashing their poems of misery and warning from the genocidal zone and refugee camp of Coxs Bazaar. Their songs are more accurate than news reports for word of the plight of the most oppressed. These are poems that begin with the fragrance on the birds handkerchief and end by walking among the mass graves. They write from a dire present to a possible future, wondering in their peril if the world outside was too quiet to hear them. Let the world not be quiet, let the world listen to these poems." Carolyn Forché"I Am a Rohingya implores the world to listen to the spirit of a people who have experienced some of the worst human rights abuses on the planet. These poems have no alternative but to speak out, they are from a crisis that must be addressed. There is brilliance in here!"John Kinsella FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography James Byrne is a poet, editor and translator. His most recent poetry collections are Places You Leave (Arc Publications, 2022), The Caprices (Arc Publications, 2019), Everything Broken Up Dances (Tupelo, 2015) and White Coins (Arc Publications, 2015). Other publications include Blood/Sugar (Arc, 2009), WITHDRAWALS, Soapboxes (both KFS, 2019 and 2014) and Myths of the Savage Tribe (a co-authored text with Sandeep Parmar, Oystercatcher, 2014).Byrne received an MFA in Poetry from New York University, where he was given a Stein Fellowship (Extraordinary International Scholar). He was the Poet in Residence at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He currently lives near Liverpool where he is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University.Byrne is renowned for his commitment to international poetries and poetics. He is the International Editor for Arc Publications and was editor of The Wolf, which he co-founded, from 2002-2017. In 2012, with ko ko thett, Byrne co-edited Bones Will Crow, the first anthology of contemporary Burmese poetry to be published in English (Arc, 2012). In 2017, with Robert Sheppard, he edited Atlantic Drift, a book of transatlantic poetry and poetics (Arc, EHUP). In 2019, he co-edited, with Shehzar Doja, I am a Rohingya, the first anthology of Rohingya poetry in English. Byrnes poems have been translated into several languages and his Selected Poems (Poemas Escogidos) was published in Spanish in 2019 by Buenos Aires Poetry (translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez NÚñez).John Kinsella has written that James Byrne is a phenomenon and Blood/Sugar is astonishing...He is a complete original. Ishion Hutchinson wrote of White Coins: this is language charged with a tough, sensual contraflow music, vividly alive to inquiry and witness [...] an astonishing work, one where virtÙ and gravitas are in concord with a hermetic passion, one fiercely and beautifully saying the unsayable. Details ISBN191146969X Publisher Arc Publications Language English Year 2019 ISBN-10 191146969X ISBN-13 9781911469698 Publication Date 2019-08-01 Pages 88 Format Paperback Imprint Arc Publications Place of Publication Lancs Country of Publication United Kingdom Translated from Burmese Edited by Shehzar Doja Illustrations 8 Illustrations DEWEY 808.81 UK Release Date 2019-08-01 AU Release Date 2019-08-01 NZ Release Date 2019-08-01 Author Shehzar Doja Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:126527293;

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