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The Go Go Dancer Who Stole My Viagra by Dean Barrett
 And Other Poetic Tragedies of Thailand by Dean Barrett This volume of poems and ballads on Thailand and other lands offers the reader insight into the Land of Smiles as well as a great deal of pure fun. The main section of the book, Poems on Thailand, includes "Lek, The Farmer's Dark-Eyed Daughter", "The Silly Old Man with the Young Thai Girl in the Texas Lone Star Saloon", "Noy of the Horny Toad" and "The Kid from Khao San Road". The second section of the book, Poems Beyond Thailand, includes the fall of the gangster "Michael Lee" and the haunting ballad, "The Man They Called 8-Ball". The remarkable variety of subjects and styles and moods presented range from the spiritual "The Buddha's Golden Gleam", to the hilarious "No. I am not in Love with the Maid so put the Knife down now", "The Night Bubba got it for Free" and "Buffalo, Him Die, Send Money". |
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A Promise for Siam by Tom Radzienda
Siam has become Thailand. Forests have become hotels. Islands have become movies. Cities have become factories. People have become things. That's the country as we know it today. A Promise for Siam is a search for the genuine essence of Siam by walking peacefully through forests, embracing islands at dawn, seeking humanity in the cities and meeting the hearts of the people. Truly knowing means hearing the voices of children and dreams of youth, learning the language, the customs, the contradictions and the confusion. These poems paint portraits of the land through the eyes of a poet in love with Siam's tropical paradise. These poems gracefully accept the cacophony of Bangkok and what it tells us about the human condition. These poems are enchanted by unique traditions, ancient civilizations, modern festivals, and what each tells us about the changing face of Siam. |
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Thailand in Torment by Terry P. Theeravuth
The poems in this book describe some of the problems facing Thailand and its people as a result of too rapid economic development (interrupted by the recent currency crisis) and a flawed transition from dictatorship to democracy. These problems include patronage, corruption, pollution, traffic jams, absence of the rule of law, and personal violation of individuals, among others. Mr. Theeravuth shows us these shortcomings with the sharp tongue of a social critic and with a compassionate eye for ordinary people in a way similar to Emile Zola in his writings about French workers in the late 19th. century. These 35 poems display the power of language to depict the country's predicament in original and sometimes startling ways. They are for everyone in Thailand who can read Thai, English or French. |
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No More Pretty Pictures by Tom Radzienda
Can we return to the simple pleasures of life? The colours of a flower? Listening to the wind? Poetry will bring us to the mountains through imagination, and closer to genuine self. Do we even sense that modern urban life is a prison? Or are we so accustomed to it that we consider it normal? Reading poems will awaken our consciousness to a purer, non-technological, unadvertised reality. I hope to give insight into the deep source of sorrow and pain in our society and discover a cure, rather than merely offer a distraction from the mundane demands of incorporated life. In the corporate mind, art is merely entertainment to distract us and turn us into mindless consumers. Yet art has a much deeper responsibility to awaken, incite, and inspire. Freed from the demands of making profit, art can liberate us from the dulling effects of culture, bureaucracy, and our own servile compliance with the status quo. No more pretty pictures. The greater beauty is in our own freedom to imagine. |
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