Summer was a Fast Train Without Terminals
Summer was a Fast Train Without Terminals

Author: Merlinda Carullo Bobis

Publisher: Spinifex Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9781875559763

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To love in a language prised from my wishbone. To sing a landscape where village girls burst the moon with giggles. To dance through the fattest eye of a rice-grain -- to do all these in peace and war is the wish embodied in Merlinda Bobis' poetry. From her epic poem 'Cantala of the Warrior Woman Daragang Magayon' to lyric reflections on longing, and finally to an erotic poetry-dance-drama, Bobis traces the cartography of desire and its intimacy with death.

Accidents of Composition
Accidents of Composition

Author: Merlinda Bobis

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781742199986

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The eyes catch a black bird close to an eerie sun. Instantly, a poem: an accident of composition. Or a tree, rock, light from a story heard, dreamt, read or remembered returns as if it were the only tree, rock, light in the planet. The poet is caught, returned to her first heart: poetry. after four novels, Merlinda offers seventy-six poems from the stillness of contemplation to the spinning of tales, then to passage across different histories. Glass becomes eternal greens underwater, fish gossip about colonisation, a gumnut turns dissident, and the dreams of Captain Cook and Pigafetta circumnavigate the globe leaving a trail of blood, beads, and the scent of cloves. But between, the port hopes: 'there could be accidents of kindness here.' In her latest collection of poetry, award-winning author Merlina Bobis traces the accidents of art and life. Drawing on the journal of Pigafetta whose writings have become an accident of history, Merlinda Bobis composes with an attuned ear and her poems are rich with imagery; with breath and heart.

Banana Heart Summer
Banana Heart Summer

Author: Merlinda Bobis

Publisher: Delta

Published: 2008-05-20

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0440337860

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In her lush, luminous debut novel, Merlinda Bobis creates a dazzling feast for all the senses. Richly imagined, gloriously written, Banana Heart Summer is an incandescent tale of food, family, and longing—at once a love letter to mothers and daughters and a lively celebration of friendship and community. Twelve-year-old Nenita is hungry for everything: food, love, life. Growing up with five sisters and brothers, she searches for happiness in the magical smell of the deep-frying bananas of Nana Dora, who first tells Nenita the myth of the banana heart; in the tantalizing scent of Manolito, the heartthrob of Nenita and her friends; in the pungent aromas of the dishes she prepares for the most beautiful woman on Remedios Street. To Nenita, food is synonymous with love—the love she yearns to receive from her disappointed mother. But in this summer of broken hearts, new friendships, secrets, and discoveries, change will be as sudden and explosive as the monsoon that marks the end of the sweltering heat—and transforms Nenita’s young life in ways she could never imagine.

Banana Heart Summer
Banana Heart Summer

Author: Merlinda Bobis

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Published: 2004-09-01

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1742660703

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The myth of the banana heart inspires 12-year-old Nenita, growing up in a small, impoverished Filippino town. She will appease her family's hunger and win her violent mother’s affection. Touching, funny, elegaic, this is a truly original book that will remain in your mind, and in your senses, long after you read it.

Fish-hair Woman
Fish-hair Woman

Author: Merlinda Carullo Bobis

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781876756970

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1987. The Philippine government fights a total war against insurgency. The village of Iraya is militarised. The days are violent and the nights heavy with fireflies in the river where the dead are dumped. With her twelve-metre hair, Estrella, the Fish-hair Woman, trawls corpses from the water that tastes of lemon-grass. She falls in love with the Australian Tony McIntyre who disappears in the conflict. Ten years later, his son travels to Manila to find his father. From the Philippines to Australia, Hawai'i, to evocations of colonial Spain, this transnational novel spins a dark, epic tale. Its storytelling is expansive, like the heart -- How much can the heart accommodate? ... Only four chambers but with infinite space like memory, where there is room even for those whom we do not love.

White Turtle
White Turtle

Author: Merlinda Carullo Bobis

Publisher: Spinifex Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9781875559893

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Alternately mythic, wistful, and quirky, this short story anthology resonates with an original and confident storytelling voice. An anomalous kiss, a white turtle ferrying the dreams of the dead, a working siesta in a five-star hotel, a woman’s 12-meter hair trawling corpses from a river, and a queue of longings in Sydney: these are some of the subjects of the 23 enigmatic tales brimming with chance and hope.

Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing
Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing

Author: Jane Eldridge Miller

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780415159814

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Entries profile women writers of poetry, fiction, prose, and drama, including Sylvia Plath, Fleur Adcock, and Toni Morrison.

The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry

Author: Ann Vickery

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-06-30

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 100947023X

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This volume investigates Australian poetry's centrality to debates around colonialism, nationalism, diversity, embodiment, local-global relations, and the environment.

The Solemn Lantern Maker
The Solemn Lantern Maker

Author: Merlinda Bobis

Publisher: Delta

Published: 2009-10-27

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0440338956

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From the award-winning author of Banana Heart Summer—“[a] wonderful debut…[that] resembles Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street and is destined to be a hit among book club members”*—comes a wondrous tale of hope, secrets, and family devotion. It’s six days until Christmas, and on the bustling streets of Manila a mute ten-year-old boy sells his version of the stars: exquisite lanterns handmade with colorful paper. But everything changes for young Noland when he witnesses an American tourist injured in a drive-by shooting of a journalist and imagines he’s seen an angel falling from the sky. When Noland whisks her to the safety of the hut he shares with his mother, the magical and the real collide: shimmering lanterns and poverty, Christmas carols and loss, dreams of friendship and the global war on terror. While the story of the missing tourist grips the media, Noland and his mother care for their wounded guest, and a dark memory returns. But light sneaks in—and their lives are transformed by the power of love. *Library Journal ( starred review, “Editor’s Pick”)

Going Home to a Landscape
Going Home to a Landscape

Author: Marianne Villanueva

Publisher: CALYX Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780934971843

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Offers teachers, students, and general readers a fascinating glimpse into the Filipina diaspora.