
Two or Three Things About Desire
Conchitina Cruz(Author)
The Chinese University Press
Will be published approx. on 30. December 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
58 pages
978-962-996-613-3 (ISBN)
Description
Drawn from International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong 2013, Two or Three Things About Desire is a chapbook of poetry by Conchitina Cruz presented in English and Chinese. Two or Three Things About Desire is also available, along with the chapbooks of other internationally renowned poets, in Islands or Continents (Eighteen-volume Set). Selected poems from this volume are featured in the anthology Islands or Continents: International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong 2013.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 171 mm
Width: 108 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-962-996-613-3 (9789629966133)
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Two or Three Things about Desire
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
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Person
Conchitina Cruz was born in Manila. She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of the Philippines in Diliman. Her books of poetry include Dark Hours (UP Press, 2005), which received the National Book Award for Poetry, and elsewhere held and lingered (High Chair, 2008). Together with Adam David and Delilah Aguilar, she co-authored A Catalogue of Clothes for Sale from the Closet of Christine Abella-Perpetual Student, Ukay Fan, and Compulsive Travelee (The Youth & Beauty Brigade, 2012).
She served as co-editor of High Chair 12, a three-part issue of the journal devoted to the Maguindanao Massacre of 2009, and the Kritika Kultura Anthology of New Philippine Writing in English (English Department, Ateneo de Manila University, March 2011). A recipient of Fulbright and Rockefeller Foundation grants, she has published her poetry in Philippine and American journals. Together with a few other Manila-based writers, Cruz runs a small press called The Youth & Beauty Brigade.She is currently pursuing a PhD in English at the University at Albany, The State University of New York.
She served as co-editor of High Chair 12, a three-part issue of the journal devoted to the Maguindanao Massacre of 2009, and the Kritika Kultura Anthology of New Philippine Writing in English (English Department, Ateneo de Manila University, March 2011). A recipient of Fulbright and Rockefeller Foundation grants, she has published her poetry in Philippine and American journals. Together with a few other Manila-based writers, Cruz runs a small press called The Youth & Beauty Brigade.She is currently pursuing a PhD in English at the University at Albany, The State University of New York.