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Denied a third visa to enter Burma (a police state currently known as Myanmar), Karen Connelly went to the Thai-Burmese border and interviewed Burmese political exiles.
"It was like peeling the gauze off an infected wound,"; she says. "Each man and woman told how he or she was tortured, the methods, how long, where, if they ever knew, which prison they were sent to after...";
Connelly's poems in The Border Surrounds Us (M&S $16.99) are frequently inspired by rebel soldiers, migrant workers and haunted refugees.
"Every single person-rebel soldier in jungle camp, woman nurse, woman medic, woman doctor, diplomatically inclined dissident in town or city, prostitute, migrant worker, journalist-with-two-names, thousands upon thousands of ethnic refugees, whose histories of oppression are written plainly on their faces-every single person was a miracle. Each of them had survived.";
Brick magazine recently published Connelly's Burmese memoir; a non-fiction book will follow. 0-7710-2245-X
[BCBW SPRING 2000]
"It was like peeling the gauze off an infected wound,"; she says. "Each man and woman told how he or she was tortured, the methods, how long, where, if they ever knew, which prison they were sent to after...";
Connelly's poems in The Border Surrounds Us (M&S $16.99) are frequently inspired by rebel soldiers, migrant workers and haunted refugees.
"Every single person-rebel soldier in jungle camp, woman nurse, woman medic, woman doctor, diplomatically inclined dissident in town or city, prostitute, migrant worker, journalist-with-two-names, thousands upon thousands of ethnic refugees, whose histories of oppression are written plainly on their faces-every single person was a miracle. Each of them had survived.";
Brick magazine recently published Connelly's Burmese memoir; a non-fiction book will follow. 0-7710-2245-X
[BCBW SPRING 2000]
Submitted on July 10, 2003 in By David.
