Tuntha-obas, Padcha: Trespasses

O Books, paperback Publication Date: January 30, 2006 Publisher Marketing: Poetry. Asian American Studies.  Writing about and within the differences in language, Tuntha-Obas explores the multifarious ways in which the world is rendered through English and Thai, as well as the renegotiation of language with space, of a native language transformed in the context of writing in the U.S. Transmuting Western canonical texts, such as those of Plato, and invoking subversive, genre-bending writing that traverses continents, such as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee, trespasses charts out a space that seeks to remain “debordered,” where “words aren’t to be owned. they are / created.”Padcha Tuntha-Obas is a native of Bangkok, Thailand. She is the author of the chapbook Composite. Diplomacy (Tinfish Press, 2005) and trespasses (O Books, 2006). She spent 6 years in the United States as a student of Philosophy and Creative Writing and currently lives in Bangkok, Thailand.