Waking Up To The Pattern Left by a Snail Overnight: Poems by Jim Pascual Agustin
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The archaeological traces of a snail trail are left on a window, evidence of a fevered, sleepless wandering. A charlatan fortuneteller utters prophecies from a coffin of a box. Small moments—the cutting of a butternut squash, the discovery of an octopus in the water—become windows into the tragicomedy of human life.
A journey between politics and ecology, Waking Up to the Pattern Left by a Snail Overnight bursts open the shared doors of meditation and madness, of nature and human corruption, throwing the sounds and visions of Taylor Swift, Björk, Maria Ressa, Mad Max, Japanese animé, and the Marcos dictatorship into an unpredictable dance filled with moments of silence and wonder.
Tinged with darkness but never with despair, these poems walk through remnants of grief, destruction, and corruption and toward versions of rebirth, each one a map showing us the way to heal from loss and answer with joy.
"The book's tone of calmness falls like a cashmere shawl about you as you sit reading this book of poems. That calmness makes more emphatic the occasional shard your eyes suddenly stumble across...If the poems in [Agustin's] new book, Waking Up to the Pattern Left by a Snail Overnight, represent his newest or newer work, then I'm glad since they're among the best poems I've read by him."
—Eileen Tabios, The Halo-Halo Review
Book Details
Book Details
Author(s): Jim Pascual Agustin
Publisher: Ateneo University Press
Publication Year: 2024
Condition: New
Cover: Softcover
Language: English
ISBN: 9786214483198
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