Susan Fulop Kepner has been a Lecturer in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1991. Among the works she has translated from Thai are Letters from Thailand by Botan (1977) and A Child of the Northeast by Kampoon Boontawee (1987). She has also written a book of original prose poems entitled Somebody's Mother (1987).

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsNotes on TransliterationIntroductionPART ONE: MOTHERSContentsGrandmother the ProgressiveJunlada PhakdiphuminDeep in the Heart of a MotherWat WanlayankulFrom People of QualityDok Mai SotFrom A Child of the NortheastKampoon BoontaweeMatsiiPART TWO: WIVES AND LOVERSSnakes Weep, Flowers SmileSuwanee SuklwnthaFrom Behind the PaintingSri BuraphaFrom That Woman's Name is BoonrawdBotanDeaf SimPrabhassorn SevikulA Pot That Scouring Will Not SaveAnchanWhen She Was a Major WifeSubha DevakulSai-roong's Dream of LoveSri Dao RuangFrom This Human VesselKrisna Asoksin PART THREE: DAUGHTERSThe Dancing GirlUssiri DhammachotiGreenieManop ThanomsriA Mote of Dust on the Face of the EarthPreechapoul BloonchuayAppendix: Kings of the Chakri DynastyBibliographySuggested ReadingSources of PublicationsIndex

Susan Fulop Kepner has been a Lecturer in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1991. Among the works she has translated from Thai are Letters from Thailand by Botan (1977) and A Child of the Northeast by Kampoon Boontawee (1987). She has also written a book of original prose poems entitled Somebody's Mother (1987).

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsNotes on TransliterationIntroductionPART ONE: MOTHERSContentsGrandmother the ProgressiveJunlada PhakdiphuminDeep in the Heart of a MotherWat WanlayankulFrom People of QualityDok Mai SotFrom A Child of the NortheastKampoon BoontaweeMatsiiPART TWO: WIVES AND LOVERSSnakes Weep, Flowers SmileSuwanee SuklwnthaFrom Behind the PaintingSri BuraphaFrom That Woman's Name is BoonrawdBotanDeaf SimPrabhassorn SevikulA Pot That Scouring Will Not SaveAnchanWhen She Was a Major WifeSubha DevakulSai-roong's Dream of LoveSri Dao RuangFrom This Human VesselKrisna Asoksin PART THREE: DAUGHTERSThe Dancing GirlUssiri DhammachotiGreenieManop ThanomsriA Mote of Dust on the Face of the EarthPreechapoul BloonchuayAppendix: Kings of the Chakri DynastyBibliographySuggested ReadingSources of PublicationsIndex