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Song sonnets

Legaspi, Harold
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In Song Sonnets, Filipino-born, Australian writer Harold Legaspi imagines and re-images the contours of love, filial, and blood relations, myths and legends and the human dependency to Mother Earth. Song Sonnets is a close encounter with Pinoy heart and spirit, mind and soul against erasure. The sonnets weave Filipino and English languages to espouse the heart (and mortality) of a solitary writer in a world of flux, beneath God(s), heavenly bodies, family, the stars and skies, between air, the fire of seasons, earth and sea. The sonnets are a way to hold the world still and understand the depth of inter-dependent energies which lead to transformation. The writer pays credence to memory and intent capable of transcending non-history, whilst revering William Shakespeare's sonnets to redefine poeties of the canon, and make concrete Filipino-Australian relality with a self-defined past and future.
Main title:
Song sonnets / by Harold Legaspi.
Imprint:
St Clair : Papel Publishing , 2023
Collation:
124 pages : 22 ; 23cm
ISBN:
9780645984323 (hardback.)
Dewey class:
899.221899.211
Language:
English
BRN:
510089
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
PenrithNonfiction899.211 SONAvailable
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