Phantompains - Therese Estacion

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Auteur(s) : Therese Estacion

Editeur : Book*Hug Press

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/03/2021

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 96

Expédition : 204

Dimensions : 18.0 x 11.4 x 1.8

ISBN : 1771666862

Résumé :

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.

Biographie:

Therese Estacion is part of the Visayan diaspora community. She spent her childhood between Cebu and Gihulngan, two distinct islands found in the archipelago named by its colonizers as the Philippines, before she moved to Canada with her family when she was ten years old. She is an elementary school teacher and is currently studying to be a psychotherapist. Therese is also a bilateral below knee and partial hands amputee, and identifies as a disabled person/person with a disability. Therese lives in Toronto. Her poems have been published in CV2 and PANK Magazine, and shortlisted for the Marina Nemat Award. Phantompains is her first book.

Sommaire:

THERESE ESTACION is the author of Phantompains, a poetry collection that explores her Filipinx heritage and physical disability. In 2021, the book was a finalist for both the Foreword INDIES Award for Poetry and the Firecracker Award for Poetry. Based in Toronto, Estacion has been an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies and is training as a psychotherapist. Her latest book is Jelly, Baby: Essays on Disability and Vulnerability.