Khin Aung Aye was born in 1956 in Rangoon where he was raised and attended the university. He has published 11 collections of poetry, which include collaborations with leading poets and translators from Burma, like Zeyar Lynn and his own cousin and early teacher Maw Rousseau. Time Train from the World’s Shore was his first book and his early collections reveal a somewhat more traditional approach to poetry—exemplified by four-syllable metered verse—steadily becoming more