Welcome GuestRegister/Login? View CartCheckout

Main : migration, myth, Philippines, poetry


ISBN: 9781875559763
0.170 kgs
198 x 128 mm
203 pp
Share this on Facebook     Add to Librarything.com  Add to Goodreads.com
Summer Was A Fast Train Without Terminals
Merlinda Bobis

To love in a language prised from my wishbone.
To sing a landscape where village girls once burst the moon with giggles.
To dance through the fattest eye of a rice-grain.

To do all these in peace and war is the wish embodied in Merlinda Bobis’ poetry. From her epic poem Cantata of the Warrior Woman: Daragang Magayon to lyric reflections on longing, and finally to an erotic dance-drama, Bobis traces the cartography of desire and its intimacy with death.

In stock.

$21.95

Awards
1999 Shortlist, Age Book of the Year Award
Reviews
Write a review.
‘...a powerful exposition on the transition of woman to warrior, based on the myth of the origin of Mount Mayon. This epic performance poem, written in the grand tradition, tells of lust, love and war. It is compelling reading replete with seductive images and dramatic dialogue.’ Counterpoise, USA
‘Bobis can produce some genuinely haunting pieces. This is a touching work from established poet.’ Hamesh Wyatt, Otago Daily Times
Out Now
Valence

Valence


Susan Hawthorne

Valence
    in chemistry, the number of bonds in an
    element’s atom
    in linguistics, the number of arguments
   ...

Anticlimax

Anticlimax


Sheila Jeffreys

A SPINIFEX FEMINIST CLASSIC

“A rigorous, savvy contemporary intellectual history … Read this book.” – Andrea...


Bite Your Tongue

Bite Your Tongue


Francesca Rendle-Short

Available Now

Mrs Angel Rendle-Short said that a book given to her daughter, Francesca, as an English textbook at school...


A Handwritten Modern Classic

A Handwritten Modern Classic


Finola Moorhead

A SPINIFEX FEMINIST CLASSIC

This quirky manifesto about writing was first published in 1983. Finola Moorhead, one of...


Content © Spinifex Press • Terms & ConditionsContact UsAbout UsSite Map