Name: Summer Was a Fast Train Without Terminals
Brand: Spinifex Press
SKU: 9781875559763
Price: 12.95 GBP
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Summer Was a Fast Train Without Terminals

By (author): Merlinda Bobis

Published by Spinifex Press

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£12.95

Published: 29-May-1998
ISBN: 9781875559763

Paperback
208 Pages

Subjects:
Poetry by individual poets
Literary studies: from c 1900 -
Literary studies: poetry & poets
Black & Asian studies

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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.

Merlinda Bobis is a contemporary Philippine Australian writer, dancer, visual artist and academic. Born in Legaspi City in the Philippines, Merlinda completed her BA at Aquinas University and completed her post-graduate studies at the University of St Thomas and the University of Wollongong, where she went on to lecture in creative writing. She is now an honorary Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University. Merlinda is the recipient of multiple awards including a shortlisting for The Age Book of Year Award in 1999. In 2000 she was awarded the Steele Rudd Award for the Best Collection of Australian short stories for White Turtle and in 2016 Merlinda's novel Locust Girl: A Love Song, was awarded the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.