Reliquaria Villanueva Paperback John Wiley & Sons 9780803296381

Reliquaria\nby R.A. Villanueva\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: R.A. Villanueva\nTitle: Reliquaria\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Poetry\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press\nPublication year: 2014\nISBN-13: 9780803296381\nISBN-10: 080329638X\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIn his prize-winning poetry collection Reliquaria, R. A. Villanueva embraces liminal, in-between spaces in considering an ever-evolving Filipino American identity. Languages and cultures collide; mythologies and faiths echo and resound. Part haunting, part prayer, part prophecy, these poems resonate with the voices of the dead and those who remember them. In this remarkable book, we enter the vessel of memory, the vessel of the body. The dead act as witness, the living as chimera, and we learn th.