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008			970815s1983 000 0 eng d
050			_aPS 9992.2 _b.C470 1983
100			_aChua, Lilia Lopez _950590
245		0	_aDescending the stairs twice / _cpoetry by Lilia Lopez Chua.
260			_aDavao City _bAteneo de Davao University, _c[1983].
300			_a91 folded sheet] _c41x44 cm.
520			_aContains poems which reiterates the poet's affinity with the younger strain of avant-garde writing, her lines hearing the music of WS Merwin,Denise Levertov,Sylvia Plath,Mark Strand. These musicians expound on reality through weave of fantasy so that the daily experience metamorphoses into the personal symbol,the ultimate valuation of the self. The poems are visually surrealistic ,landscapes and objects plucked out of context from their surroundings and used,re-used,to extract meaning from pain with candor and innocence,here made more forceful by the use of the first person.Unlike the general run of poets,the poet does not editorialize nor tell the reader what to feel and think.Whatever statements she makes are through imagery which is sustained by her ability to suspend disbelief, hence they are not only poems of forbearance but also of wonderment :total inscapes.
650			_aPhilippine poetry (English) _918868
942			_cIRC
999			_c62367 _d62367