Lyric; philosophical poetry
Burning House & Hush Harbor
PHP 450.00
The first of the Ampersand series, this book gathers two poetry collections by poet Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta. Burning Houses explores the internal movements of loss while Hush Harbor investigates what poet Rachel Rose describes as the fraught love and power dynamics between men and women, colonizer and colonized.? Lacuesta also tests the limits of her lyrical verse against the range of emotions that power them. Often, the result is both song and silence, meaning and nonsense, and the interchangeability of all those terms.
Publisher: "Mookie KATIGBAK-LACUESTA is the author of four poetry collections: The Proxy Eros (2008), Burning Houses (2013), Hush Harbor (2017), Eros Redux (2019), and College Boy (2021). She obtained an MFA from the New School University in 2004, and has since taught in major universities in Manila. Katigbak-Lacuesta has also co-edited various literary Filipino poetry anthologies for the Cordite Poetry Review and Vagabond Press. In 2019, she co-edited The Achieve Of, The Mastery, a survey of contemporary Philippine Poetry in English, with Dr. Gemino Abad.
Widely-awarded for her work in the Philippines, Katigbak- Lacuesta has also been the Filipino delegate to international literary festivals in Rotterdam, Medell?n, San Francisco, Macau, and Kuala Lumpur. In 2015, she completed a writing residency for the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa."
Year: 2021
Category: Poetry
Language: English
Pages count: 163
Word count: 15580
Dimensions: 15 x 23 cm
ISBN: 978-971-506-876-5
Keywords: Ampersand series, Power dynamics, Loss
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