Waking Up to the Pattern Left by a Snail Overnight: Poems - Softcover

Agustin, Jim Pascual

 
9781958652008: Waking Up to the Pattern Left by a Snail Overnight: Poems
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1958652008 ISBN 13: 9781958652008
Publisher: Gaudy Boy LLC, 2023

Synopsis

"Everything everywhere all at once, yet intimately, pulsatingly at home." - Yeow Kai Chai, winner of the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize

A miraculous gathering of voices from nature, pop culture, and human dictatorship, this "crystalline" collection asks what it means to live in danger, and how to break free.

Winner of the 2022 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize

The archaeological traces of a snail trail are left on a window, evidence of a fevered, sleepless wandering. A charlatan fortune teller 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, Bjork, Maria Ressa, Mad Max, Japanese anime, 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.

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About the Author

Jim Pascual Agustin grew up in the Philippines during the Marcos dictatorship and moved to Cape Town, South Africa, in 1994. He writes in Filipino and English. He holds a degree in English Literature from Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. He has been a lecturer, an NGO worker, a secondhand music shop employee, and a fridge cleaner kit seller, among others. Agustin has published several books of poetry and a collection of stories since 1992. His poetry has been recognised at the New Coin DALRO Awards, the EU Sol Plaatje Poetry Awards, and the AVBOB Poetry Competition. Lunch Ticket, a US-based online journal, awarded him the Gabo Prize.

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Publisher
Gaudy Boy LLC
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1958652008
ISBN 13 
9781958652008
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
94