Lyric poetry
Drift: Poems
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This collection immediately resonates for the collection?s willingness to transcend everyday things and explore oft- untenured buildings and unchartered terrains. Here are poems that are not afraid to take risks, at least subject-wise. We are allowed to walk into ruins left behind by Dante and peel off the paint from various artworks while navigating the streets of old Manila. There?s deep care here given to preservation. Odes and dirges coalesce to convince the reader that a good poem teeters on sound and sentiment but always manages to gain balance and find its way across.
Publisher: Joel H. Vega has worked as a political and financial journalist in the Philippines and Saudi Arabia. A Communication Arts graduate of UP at Los Ba?os in Laguna, Joel won the Carlos Palanca Memorial Literary Awards in 2010 for Poetry and in 2016, First Prize for the Essay. A visual artist he has exhibited in Manila and in the Netherlands, and in various group shows held at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague and Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven. He lives in the Netherlands where he works as a medical writer and editor. Drift is his first poetry collection.
Year: 2018
Category: Poetry
Language: English
Pages count: 97
Word count: 94776
Dimensions: 15 x 23 cm
ISBN: 978-971-506-833-8
Keywords: Old Manila, architecture, human anatomy
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