Heaven is Just Another Country: Poems by Jaime Jacinto (Out of Print) CHILDREN'S LITERATURE - English

Heaven is Just Another Country: Poems by Jaime Jacinto (Out of Print) CHILDREN'S LITERATURE - EnglishIn this lush collection of poems, Jacinto evokes a landscape of loss and melancholia. Jacintos lyric speaker observes the quiet catastrophes of life: a bum outside a hotel door coughing, a funeral procession, a father facing his impending death, a stripper dancing for GIs, among other such circumstances. His work shuttles back and forth between the Philippines and the United States and in those cross and criss crossings asks us continually to consider

He resides in Madrid

dangerous trek from Europe to the Philippines and the elaborate series of permits

Ninety percent of the world’s goods and commodities are transported by ship

family and where we really came from

this stellar collection includes the work of Maxine Hong Kingston

Brillantes

”―Dave Smith

examining their resonance in a Hemingway novel and in the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid

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"The world of Kotobuki

In The Decolonized Eye

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