Tales of the Spiderwoman: New Poetry
A Poetry book. She flutters a hand and historybreathesinnocence returns,sin ripens on the tree of knowledge,death comes to be. Merlie M....
Award-winning Filipino poet Merlie Alunan shares her genius in the poetic medium with her collection Tales of the Spiderwoman. Her masterful style and use of contemporary English is showcased in her every poem. The poet shares diverse personas evoked through one woven image after another. The collection is divided into six parts, each telling magnificently portrayed experiences and ideals created by the poet using medium."Of first-rate importance as to requisite mastery of the poetic medium (all the resources of language and rhetoric) where the poem is the very living of the imagined experience. As to style, it is exemplary employment of contemporary English; as to organization, an excellent harmony of themes on the plane of poetic insight."Gémino H. Abad Poet, Scholar, andUniversity Professor EmeritusUP Diliman
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Sour wine laughter song a bagful of wishesmy satchel of skin my brittle bones Chasing the rain The sun at my heels Merlie M. Alunan, Tales of the Spiderwoman: New Poetry // Who can teach a heart what the heart desires? Merlie M. Alunan, Tales of the Spiderwoman: New Poetry // wind stinging our facesoverhead the birdsshrieking turn backturn back turn backbehind us, look,bright fields, the seaglinting gold!we've come this farchasing the rain,the sun at our heels. Merlie M. Alunan, Tales of the Spiderwoman: New Poetry //
expecting "Woman of many words" and "To teach a heart" were my favorite pieces. This is Merlie Alunan's fourth book of poetry, and includes the collection that won her the 1st Prize for Poetry in English in the 2010 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards.Most of the poems in the collection display a different voice than the one readers of her earlier poems may be familiar with. Here one may be surprised, as I was, by the...
