Myanmar's poetic revolution
by editors@theworld.org (Patrick Winn) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6X4MW)
Some of the oldest poems are about war. Verses about warfare were carved onto Sumerian tablets that are more than four millennia old. Japanese samurai also wrote poetry about battles, as did Walt Whitman, describing the American Civil War and its horrors. Less explored is poetry's role in a war happening right now - the deadliest conflict in Asia. The World's Patrick Winn reports on the rebel poets of Myanmar.