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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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Abat/Monsters
- Agta
- Duwende
- Afloat
- Tianak
- The White Lady of the Philippines
- Aswang
- Blood and Absence Flows
- Ancho
- Lady of Sorrows
- Ama&Apo
- Smoke Struck
- Tito Joey
- Elegy for Ang Kong
- Staying Present
- Got Sick
- Pee
- Iron Body
- Coma Dreams
- Hands
- The Amputee by the Magnolia Tree
- The ABG (Able-Bodied Gaze)
- Report on Phantompains
- ICU I
- ICU II
- ICU III
- A Task
- Thinking about things again: misery during leg amputations month
- BreakB
- Eunuched Female
- EF I
- EF II
- EF III
- EF IV
- EF V
- Resources/Sources
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Colophon1
