Lyric Poetry; Narrative poetry
Planet Nine: Poems
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The poet?s subject is healing. The book?s title refers to a planet at the edge of our solar system ten times the size of Earth. The poet?s subject is gravity. Fittingly, Toledo?s poems aspire to elevation at an exponentially planetary scale, propelled by a deep belief that art might fill some of the painful distance down to the smallest, most gorgeous fissures. Planet Nine is a book of impressive formal range, not to mention a sensibility that is cosmopolitan and cosmic.
Publisher: Joel M. Toledo is the author of five books of poetry ? Chiaroscuro, The Long Lost Startle, Ruins and Reconstructions, Fault Setting, and The Blue Ones Are Machines. He was the recipient of the 2006 NCCA Literary Prize and has won various awards for his poetry in English, including the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award, The Philippines Free Press Literary Award, and the Bridport Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, Softblow, and The Washington Square. A recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Poetry Residency at the Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy in 2011 and 2023, Toledo was a fellow of the 2021 International Writers Program at the University of Iowa, USA. He teaches Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Santo Tomas.
Year: 2023
Category: Poetry
Language: English
Pages count: 104
Word count: 10410
Dimensions: 15 x 23 cm
ISBN: 978-971-506-927-4
Keywords: Cosmic, Healing, Eastern mysticism
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