Frontline Poets

Aung Naing Soe is a Burmese filmmaker and journalist. As a Hubert H. Humphrey fellow at Arizona State University, he covered immigration, the coronavirus outbreak, and the Black Lives Matter movement. In 2020, he went home for the general election and witnessed the military coup. He now covers civil unrest in Myanmar from his base in Thailand. Joe Freeman is an American writer and researcher who has worked at the Phnom Penn Post newspaper and covered the democratic transition in Myanmar as a freelance journalist. In 2017 he came to Thailand as Southeast Asia correspondent for Agence France-presse. Since 2021 he has worked for Amnesty International’s regional office.

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• Introduction A Note on Names and Translation Part 1 – MetamorphosisChapter 1 – The Last Dream Chapter 2 – A Town Different From its Name Chapter 3 – Image Chapter 4 – Three-Finger Salute Chapter 5 – Sunflower Trauma Part 2 – Damn Strong MonywaChapter 6 – Are the Trees Greener Outside? Chapter 7 – Po Maung is Coming Chapter 8 – People’s Will Chapter 9 – A Deserter Goes to War Part 3 – Lay Kay Kaw ParisChapter 10 – The River of T-Shirts Chapter 11 – What Have You Left? Chapter 12 – Look at the Zoo Epilogue Acknowledgments