- Overview
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The book presents reveries and reflections of the poet, Chun Sungho, who loves poetry, Myanmar, and Yangon that arose from his life of twenty years in Myanmar where tragedy and comedy intersect.
- Book Intro
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(English) Myanmar, Deep and Blue Night
The poet, Chun Sungho, returns with prose
His writing is like “Handel’s Messiah” that knocks on the slate roof in the rainy season of Myanmar
“My sorrowful Myanmar, My Utopia.”
The prose that resonates with the sounds of the “emmaong” (indigenous lizard) and owl
After a long sojourn, the poet, Chun Sungho, is back. Of course, not for good. After his stays in Italy, Germany, Russia, Hungary, Poland, Africa, Peru, Mongolia, and Sakhalin, he settled in Myanmar for twenty years. He, who chronicles Myanmar with a most refined eye, is an outstanding writer and a practitioner of philanthropy.
The poet Chun Sungho’s first book of prose will make the readers’ heart beat with ardent fervor— just like when reading his remarkable poetry—and help them understand Myanmar and the lives of many minorities there, the places and the cities, the language and things, the religions and systems, the folklore and mythology, as well as the relationships between the nations, and their geopolitics.
- About the Author
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Chun Sungho
(English) Born in Yangsan, South Gyeongsang Province in 1951, Chun Sungho lives in the cities of Busan and Myanmar. He debuted in 2001 with “Critique of Poetry” and wrote the following anthology of poems: For the Dark Wings (Changbi Publishing), The Evening Scenery Talks to Me (SilcheonMunhaksa), From a Faraway Place to Faraway Place (SilcheonMunhaksa), and City That Swallows Words (Siin). He has been living in Yangon, Myanmar for twenty-one years.
