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The Experiment Of The Tropics: Poems

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Product Code: 9780982814253
ISBN13: 9780982814253
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The co-winner of the inaugural Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize. Through the lens of history and photography, The Experiment of the Tropics returns to early-twentieth-century Philippines during American occupation and asks, "How does one look at the past?" By braiding the music of anthropology with the intimacy of the lyric, Lawrence Ypil explores history's archives and excavates a city, both real and imagined, that is constituted by the shimmer of petal and porch, coral and brass--a river-refrigerator where women catch their reflections on the sheen of magazines and men lean against the walls of old houses and beckon, come here. So, we approach. The Experiment of the Tropics is a meditation on the nature of a city and its longing, the revelatory power of photography, and the startling capacity of poetry to cut into the violent but redemptive parts of history.

Author: Lawrence Lacambra Ypil
Publisher: Gaudy Boy Llc
Publication Date: Apr 06, 2019
Number of Pages: 72 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0982814259
ISBN-13: 9780982814253

The Experiment Of The Tropics: Poems

$16.00
$14.63
Sale 9%
 
The co-winner of the inaugural Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize. Through the lens of history and photography, The Experiment of the Tropics returns to early-twentieth-century Philippines during American occupation and asks, "How does one look at the past?" By braiding the music of anthropology with the intimacy of the lyric, Lawrence Ypil explores history's archives and excavates a city, both real and imagined, that is constituted by the shimmer of petal and porch, coral and brass--a river-refrigerator where women catch their reflections on the sheen of magazines and men lean against the walls of old houses and beckon, come here. So, we approach. The Experiment of the Tropics is a meditation on the nature of a city and its longing, the revelatory power of photography, and the startling capacity of poetry to cut into the violent but redemptive parts of history.

Author: Lawrence Lacambra Ypil
Publisher: Gaudy Boy Llc
Publication Date: Apr 06, 2019
Number of Pages: 72 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0982814259
ISBN-13: 9780982814253
 

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