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050			_aPS 9993.B63 _b.Ac25 2017
100			_aBobis, Merlinda.
245		0	_aAccidents of composition : _b...there could be accidents of kindness here / _cMerlinda Bobis.
264			_aDiliman, Quezon City : _bThe University of the Philippines Press, _cc2017.
300			_av., 174 pages ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes references.
520			_aThe eyes catch a black bird close to an eerie sun. Instantly, a poem: an accident of composition. Or a tree, rock, light from a story heard, dreamt, read or remembered returns as if it were the only tree, rock, light in the planet. The poet is caught, returned to her first heart: poetry. after four novels, Merlinda offers seventy-six poems from the stillness of contemplation to the spinning of tales, then to passage across different histories. Glass becomes eternal greens underwater, fish gossip about colonisation, a gumnut turns dissident, and the dreams of Captain Cook and Pigafetta circumnavigate the globe leaving a trail of blood, beads, and the scent of cloves. But between, the port hopes: 'there could be accidents of kindness here.' In her latest collection of poetry, award-winning author Merlina Bobis traces the accidents of art and life. Drawing on the journal of Pigafetta whose writings have become an accident of history, Merlinda Bobis composes with an attuned ear and her poems are rich with imagery; with breath and heart. --Bookdepository.com
650			_aPhilippine poetry (English). _918868
942			_cFIL
999			_c18266 _d18266