Delivered Poems |
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| Author:
| Gambito, Sarah |
| ISBN: | 978-0-89255-346-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2010 |
| Publisher: | Persea Books, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $22.95 |
Book Description:
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Electric new verse from the winner of the 2005 Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry. Both surrealistic and urgently on-point, these boisterous poems comprise an identity crisis in the age of New Media. Sarah Gambito writes with verve on the complicated collision of ethnicity, sex, immigration, and nationality, her playfulness and pop-culture savvy offering cover for her surprise attacks of direct, even confrontational engagement: "Am I frightening you?" she...
More Description Electric new verse from the winner of the 2005 Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry.
Both surrealistic and urgently on-point, these boisterous poems comprise an identity crisis in the age of New Media. Sarah Gambito writes with verve on the complicated collision of ethnicity, sex, immigration, and nationality, her playfulness and pop-culture savvy offering cover for her surprise attacks of direct, even confrontational engagement: "Am I frightening you?" she asks. "I'm frightening you. Good and good and good and good."