Waking Up to the Pattern Left by a Snail Overnight
Waking Up to the Pattern Left by a Snail Overnight
Jim Pascual Agustin
Waking Up to the Pattern Left by a Snail Overnight
Jim Pascual Agustin
Descripción
"Everything everywhere all at once, yet intimately, pulsatingly at home." - Yeow Kai Chai, winner of the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize
A miraculous gathering of voices from nature, pop culture, and human dictatorship, this "crystalline" collection asks what it means to live in danger, and how to break free.
Winner of the 2022 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize
The archaeological traces of a snail trail are left on a window, evidence of a fevered, sleepless wandering. A charlatan fortune teller utters prophecies from a coffin of a box. Small moments - the cutting of a butternut squash, the discovery of an octopus in the water - become windows into the tragicomedy of human life.
A journey between politics and ecology, Waking Up to the Pattern Left by a Snail Overnight bursts open the shared doors of meditation and madness, of nature and human corruption, throwing the sounds and visions of Taylor Swift, Bjork, Maria Ressa, Mad Max, Japanese anime, and the Marcos dictatorship into an unpredictable dance filled with moments of silence and wonder.
Tinged with darkness but never with despair, these poems walk through remnants of grief, destruction, and corruption and toward versions of rebirth, each one a map showing us the way to heal from loss and answer with joy.
Detalles
Formato | Tapa suave |
Número de Páginas | 94 |
Lenguaje | Inglés |
Editorial | Gaudy Boy, LLC |
Fecha de Publicación | 2023-04-01 |
Dimensiones | 8.5" x 5.5" x 0.23" pulgadas |
Letra Grande | No |
Con Ilustraciones | No |
Temas | Asiático - General, Asiático - General, Asiático - General, Asiático - General, Asiático - General, Asiático - General |
Acerca del Autor
Agustin, Jim Pascual
Jim Pascual Agustin grew up in the Philippines during the Marcos dictatorship and moved to Cape Town, South Africa, in 1994. He writes in Filipino and English. He holds a degree in English Literature from Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. He has been a lecturer, an NGO worker, a secondhand music shop employee, and a fridge cleaner kit seller, among others. Agustin has published several books of poetry and a collection of stories since 1992. His poetry has been recognised at the New Coin DALRO Awards, the EU Sol Plaatje Poetry Awards, and the AVBOB Poetry Competition. Lunch Ticket, a US-based online journal, awarded him the Gabo Prize.Garantía & Otros
Garantía: | 30 dias por defectos de fabrica |
Peso: | 0.127 kg |
SKU: | 9781958652008 |
Publicado en Unimart.com: | 24/06/24 |
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