Satirical poetry
Tokhang Nation: Poems
PHP 290.00
Mangohig?s fifth collection proceeds from the contention that the act of writing a poem is a moral one. From the gentle beseeching to firsthand experience, the poems in Tokhang Nation cover the quotidian evils Filipinos faced since 2016, everything from social media trolls to the de facto curfew besetting their collective lives. From its small portraits of daily life to the bigger picture of the battle between good and evil. The book shows the poet?s moral conviction that poetry should be an act of justice
Publisher: Arvin Abejo Mangohig is the author of four poetry books: The Gaze: Poems (University of the Philippines Press, 2003); Bloodflow: A Lyric Sequence (De La Salle University Publishing House/Central Books, 2012); and Lost Things (Vagabond Press, 2017); and Martial Law: Poems for the Dead (UST Publishing House, 2019). He works as a copy editor at the UP Press and lives in Quezon City.
Year: 2021
Category: Poetry
Language: English
Pages count: 77
Word count: 4737
Dimensions: 13 x 15 cm
ISBN: 978-971-506-875-8
Keywords: Duterte regime, Tokhang, War on drugs
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