num_pages: 83
description: “My mother (Edith L. Tiempo) writes poetry much in the same way the violets in her garden grow—and the other living, well-loved things in her care, as the furious secret mysterious processes taking place unobtrusively underneath the carefully tended balance of sun and shade and a gentle hand, with logs of open space. At marvelously unpredictable intervals, my mother’s poems appeared, breaking into life with a certain wondering silence at the heart of each of them, and no distracted, inattentive look to signal their coming. There’s a singular joyfulness in this collection that is its best achievement.”—Rowena Tiempo-Torrevillas
language: English
title: The Charmer’s Box: Poetry
titlecomplete: The Charmer’s Box: Poetry
ratings_count: 48
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: NBDB National Book Awards
category: Poetry
publisher: De La Salle University Press