A Habit of Shores
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Edited by Gemino Abad, A Habit of Shores gathers the work of 96 Filipino poets writing in English between the 1960s and 1990s, with significant representation of women poets and Filipino American voices. A sequel to A Native Clearing (1993), this 720-page anthology completes Abad’s documentation of nearly a century of Philippine poetry in English, capturing three generations of poets who forged a distinctive literary tradition from their island vantage point.
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Details
Author: Gemino Abad
Publisher: University of the Philippines Press
Year: 1999
Condition: New
Cover: Softcover
Language: English
ISBN: 9715422160
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