Amphibian : poems / Joseph O. Legaspi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Legaspi, Joseph O., 1971- Author.

Standardized Title:

Amphibian (Compilation) http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/fac3d9f9-ce2c-e61c-a18a-2f01524e8f0e

Language:

English

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

93 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Curbstone Books / Northwestern University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Exploring queerness, belonging, and the meaning of home through the lens of a Filipino American"-- Provided by publisher.

"Exploring queerness, belonging, and the meaning of home through the lens of a Filipino American. How does a queer brown body move through the American panorama? In Amphibian, Joseph O. Legaspi explores the metaphor of "amphibious living"-adapting, surviving, and flourishing in varying geographies-as it pertains to immigrants and to queerness. These poems draw on the natural world to illuminate personal experiences and, in turn, closely examine cultural, environmental, and societal constructs and concerns. Legaspi searches in nature for evidence of the validity of his own existence, determined to declare his belonging. Dwelling in landscape as a guide into the interior, Amphibian journeys not only between earth, water, and air, but also into the past, cataloging an immigrant's departures, arrivals, and returns to native soil. This moving collection is at every turn liberating, fraught, and altered"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Land

In Medias Res

Grace

Feasting

Longyi, a Lyric

In the Tropics

Weeding/Wedding

Your Mother Wears a House Dress

Father of the Graveyard

Twilight

Kissing My Father

II. Shore

Hamburger

Ókúrú

Ode to Table Grapes (Sultana)

Mongrel

Lotusland

Canandaigua

When God Came Passing Through an Artist Colony in the Hudson Valley

Immigrant Spring

Ants

Old Sage of Siquijor

Manongs' Lament

III. Water

Sketches from a Childhood Sea

My father washes his hands.

To Boil Water

A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours

Dear hammerhead,

The Stones

Underlife

To Boil Water (ii)

Two Figures on a Boat

Eye

IV. Ether

Family, an Ars Poetica

Ode to Dragon Fruit (Pitaya)

Culture

Bringing Home the Ox

The House of Your Childhood Is Smaller than Memory

Quita y Pone

Anthropause Zuihitsu

Urban Jungle

Meteorology

The last night you were alive

Aurora Frog

V. Air

Distance

First World

On an Island (New York City)

Zuihitsu: Jackson Heights, Spring 2020

Ducks

Easter, Bonifacio High Street

At the Simply Butterflies Conservation Center

Someone

Heaven in Grand Central Station

The Tree Sparrows

Amphibians

Notes

Acknowledgments.

ISBN:

9798899480072

OCLC:

1544849499