Title: Imago : poems /
Authors: Legaspi, Joseph O., 1971-; Global Filipino Literary Awards Collection (Library of Congress. Asian Division. Southeast Asia Team)
Publisher: CavanKerry Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Poetry
Abstract: "This pair once belonged to my father, army green, golden on the thinning heels and toes, decades old-- they have disappeared into the dryer-netherworld only to return repeatedly, wiser than before-- their elastics still grasp my lower calves. When I slip into them, I see my father in his footwear, like Mercury, a copper-eyed young man, like myself, brewing with stormy promise, prepared to soar over the dusty world. Dear socks, don₂t lead me astray. Propel me from this dissatisfied life to places where my father has never been."
Contents: Poem for my navel -- Imagined love poem for my mother from my Father -- The wedding photograph -- My grandmother, in increments -- Watermelon -- Two elegies -- The bringers of bread -- Childhood elegy -- The sow -- Bat hunting -- Kite season -- Blood thirst --Brother -- Shoe box in early summer -- Nocturnal -- Sleeping together -- The circumcision -- The scheme of beauty --Desert postcards -- Typhoon -- Fetching my father --The eye of the wound -- Killing a chicken -- Faith healer -- Ode to my mother's hair -- Departure: July 30, 1984 -- The immigrants' son -- Alaska --The red sweater -- My father in the night -- The socks -- Men with breasts -- This face -- Visiting the manongs in a convalescent home in Delano -- California beaches -- First cigarette -- Little blackbird -- Three muses -- Sleep.