Phantompains
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Phantompains

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eBook - ePub

Phantompains

About this book

Therese Estacion survived a rare infection that nearly killed her, but not without losing both her legs below the knees, several fingers, and reproductive organs. Phantompains is a visceral, imaginative collection exploring disability, grief and life by interweaving stark memories with dreamlike surrealism.

Taking inspiration from Filipino horror and folk tales, Estacion incorporates some Visayan language into her work, telling stories of mermen, gnomes, and ogres that haunt childhood stories of the Philippines and, then, imaginings in her hospital room, where she spent months recovering after her operations.

Estacion says she wrote these poems out of necessity: an essential task to deal with the trauma of hospitalization and what followed. Now, they are demonstrations of the power of our imaginations to provide catharsis, preserve memory, rebel and even to find self-love.

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Information

Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781771666879
Edition
1
Subtopic
Poetry

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Abat/Monsters
  6. Agta
  7. Duwende
  8. Afloat
  9. Tianak
  10. The White Lady of the Philippines
  11. Aswang
  12. Blood and Absence Flows
  13. Ancho
  14. Lady of Sorrows
  15. Ama&Apo
  16. Smoke Struck
  17. Tito Joey
  18. Elegy for Ang Kong
  19. Staying Present
  20. Got Sick
  21. Pee
  22. Iron Body
  23. Coma Dreams
  24. Hands
  25. The Amputee by the Magnolia Tree
  26. The ABG (Able-Bodied Gaze)
  27. Report on Phantompains
  28. ICU I
  29. ICU II
  30. ICU III
  31. A Task
  32. Thinking about things again: misery during leg amputations month
  33. BreakB
  34. Eunuched Female
  35. EF I
  36. EF II
  37. EF III
  38. EF IV
  39. EF V
  40. Resources/Sources
  41. Acknowledgements
  42. About the Author
  43. Colophon1