Our Lady of the Carnival by J. Neil C. Garcia (Out of Print)
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This book of poetry is divided into four chapters:I. There are No Pink Flowers
ll. Real Men
lll. Passion and Unselfish Love in a
Carnival
lV. Legends, all together, a collection of 58 poems. Some of the poems in the book have previously appeared in various publications: Chimera, Diliman Review, Ladlad: An Anthology of Philippine Gay writing, Ng, Obra, Philippine Graphic Weekly Magazine, Philippine Studies, New Writing from the Philippines, Philippine Free Press, Philippine Panorama, Stoking the Fire: Proceedings of the First Iligan National Writers Workshop and Sunday Inquirer Magazine.
About the Author
J. Neil C. Garcia teaches literature and creative writing at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. In 1994, he coedited Ladlad: An Anthology of Philippine Gay Writing, the landmark book that made available to a wider readership the body of homosexual literature by Filipinos. He taught the first class on gay writing ever offered in a Philippine university, and his study of Philippine gay culture's last thirty years had recently been published by U.P. Press. His poems have won for him a number of awards; his first poetry collection, Closet Quivers, cam out in 1992. He is currently associate for Poetry of the U.P. Creative Writing Center, and edits "Gayzette," a weekly section in The Evening Paper devoted to the discussion of homo/sexual politics. Our Lady of the Carnival is his second book of poems.
A Philippine import.
Paperback: 156 pages
Publisher: University of the Philippines Press (1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 971542121-0
ISBN-13: 978-97-1-542121-8
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
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