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Birth Language: Poems

By Aimee Suzara
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By Aimee Suzara

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Aimee Suzara's second full-length book Birth Language centers on a Filipina-American time traveling through her history, twisted and haunted like the roots of a balete tree.

The book fuses English, Spanish, and Tagalog. It employs archival texts from as early as the 1500s when European conquistadors and explorers encountered the pre-colonial Philippine islands. Guided by the babaylan (shaman) and populated by mythical creatures like the mananneansal kapre, and sireno, the collection celebr...

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PoetryGeneral & Miscellaneous PoetryInspirational & Religious PoetryPolitical & Protest PoetryPoetry of PlacesPoetry - General & MiscellaneousInspirational & Religious Poetry - General & Miscellaneous