Summer Was A Fast Train Without Terminals
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Summer Was A Fast Train Without Terminals
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Author : Merlinda Carullo Bobis
language : en
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Release Date : 1998
Summer Was A Fast Train Without Terminals written by Merlinda Carullo Bobis and has been published by Spinifex Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Drama categories.
To love in a language prised from my wishbone. To sing a landscape where village girls 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 'Cantala of the Warrior Woman Daragang Magayon' to lyric reflections on longing, and finally to an erotic poetry-dance-drama, Bobis traces the cartography of desire and its intimacy with death.
White Turtle
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Author : Merlinda Carullo Bobis
language : en
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Release Date : 1999
White Turtle written by Merlinda Carullo Bobis and has been published by Spinifex Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Fiction categories.
Alternately mythic, wistful, and quirky, this short story anthology resonates with an original and confident storytelling voice. An anomalous kiss, a white turtle ferrying the dreams of the dead, a working siesta in a five-star hotel, a woman’s 12-meter hair trawling corpses from a river, and a queue of longings in Sydney: these are some of the subjects of the 23 enigmatic tales brimming with chance and hope.
Accidents Of Composition
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Author : Merlinda Bobis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Accidents Of Composition written by Merlinda Bobis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Poetry categories.
The eyes catch a black bird close to an eerie sun. Instantly, a poem: an accident of composition. Or a tree, rock, light from a story heard, dreamt, read or remembered returns as if it were the only tree, rock, light in the planet. The poet is caught, returned to her first heart: poetry. after four novels, Merlinda offers seventy-six poems from the stillness of contemplation to the spinning of tales, then to passage across different histories. Glass becomes eternal greens underwater, fish gossip about colonisation, a gumnut turns dissident, and the dreams of Captain Cook and Pigafetta circumnavigate the globe leaving a trail of blood, beads, and the scent of cloves. But between, the port hopes: 'there could be accidents of kindness here.' In her latest collection of poetry, award-winning author Merlina Bobis traces the accidents of art and life. Drawing on the journal of Pigafetta whose writings have become an accident of history, Merlinda Bobis composes with an attuned ear and her poems are rich with imagery; with breath and heart.
Banana Heart Summer
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Author : Merlinda Bobis
language : en
Publisher: Delta
Release Date : 2008-05-20
Banana Heart Summer written by Merlinda Bobis and has been published by Delta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-20 with Fiction categories.
In her lush, luminous debut novel, Merlinda Bobis creates a dazzling feast for all the senses. Richly imagined, gloriously written, Banana Heart Summer is an incandescent tale of food, family, and longing—at once a love letter to mothers and daughters and a lively celebration of friendship and community. Twelve-year-old Nenita is hungry for everything: food, love, life. Growing up with five sisters and brothers, she searches for happiness in the magical smell of the deep-frying bananas of Nana Dora, who first tells Nenita the myth of the banana heart; in the tantalizing scent of Manolito, the heartthrob of Nenita and her friends; in the pungent aromas of the dishes she prepares for the most beautiful woman on Remedios Street. To Nenita, food is synonymous with love—the love she yearns to receive from her disappointed mother. But in this summer of broken hearts, new friendships, secrets, and discoveries, change will be as sudden and explosive as the monsoon that marks the end of the sweltering heat—and transforms Nenita’s young life in ways she could never imagine.
Fish Hair Woman
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Author : Merlinda Carullo Bobis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Fish Hair Woman written by Merlinda Carullo Bobis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Fiction categories.
1987. The Philippine government fights a total war against insurgency. The village of Iraya is militarised. The days are violent and the nights heavy with fireflies in the river where the dead are dumped. With her twelve-metre hair, Estrella, the Fish-hair Woman, trawls corpses from the water that tastes of lemon-grass. She falls in love with the Australian Tony McIntyre who disappears in the conflict. Ten years later, his son travels to Manila to find his father. From the Philippines to Australia, Hawai'i, to evocations of colonial Spain, this transnational novel spins a dark, epic tale. Its storytelling is expansive, like the heart -- How much can the heart accommodate? ... Only four chambers but with infinite space like memory, where there is room even for those whom we do not love.
Banana Heart Summer
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Author : Merlinda Bobis
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 2004-09-01
Banana Heart Summer written by Merlinda Bobis and has been published by Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The myth of the banana heart inspires 12-year-old Nenita, growing up in a small, impoverished Filippino town. She will appease her family's hunger and win her violent mother’s affection. Touching, funny, elegaic, this is a truly original book that will remain in your mind, and in your senses, long after you read it.
Who S Who In Contemporary Women S Writing
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Author : Jane Eldridge Miller
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2002
Who S Who In Contemporary Women S Writing written by Jane Eldridge Miller and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Entries profile women writers of poetry, fiction, prose, and drama, including Sylvia Plath, Fleur Adcock, and Toni Morrison.
The Cambridge Companion To Australian Poetry
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Author : Ann Vickery
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-06-30
The Cambridge Companion To Australian Poetry written by Ann Vickery and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume investigates Australian poetry's centrality to debates around colonialism, nationalism, diversity, embodiment, local-global relations, and the environment.
The Solemn Lantern Maker
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Author : Merlinda Bobis
language : en
Publisher: Delta
Release Date : 2009-10-27
The Solemn Lantern Maker written by Merlinda Bobis and has been published by Delta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-27 with Fiction categories.
From the award-winning author of Banana Heart Summer—“[a] wonderful debut…[that] resembles Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street and is destined to be a hit among book club members”*—comes a wondrous tale of hope, secrets, and family devotion. It’s six days until Christmas, and on the bustling streets of Manila a mute ten-year-old boy sells his version of the stars: exquisite lanterns handmade with colorful paper. But everything changes for young Noland when he witnesses an American tourist injured in a drive-by shooting of a journalist and imagines he’s seen an angel falling from the sky. When Noland whisks her to the safety of the hut he shares with his mother, the magical and the real collide: shimmering lanterns and poverty, Christmas carols and loss, dreams of friendship and the global war on terror. While the story of the missing tourist grips the media, Noland and his mother care for their wounded guest, and a dark memory returns. But light sneaks in—and their lives are transformed by the power of love. *Library Journal ( starred review, “Editor’s Pick”)
Wire Dancing
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Author : Patricia Sykes
language : en
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Release Date : 1999
Wire Dancing written by Patricia Sykes and has been published by Spinifex Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Fiction categories.
Circus as drama and risk, as exuberance and irrepressible spirit, is the central metaphor Patricia Sykes uses to open a world where public and private share the same tightrope. The poems speak of women searching for footholds along the spectrums of politics, power, history, culture and relationships. Theirs are performances of celebration and hope as they wire dance through circumcision and incest, madness and suicide, genocide and war. There is passion and resistance, hot comedy and fire in the belly. Falling is the first victory, balance is the ultimate skill.