Woman, in Parts

• Main Author: dela Cruz, Noelle Leslie
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2022
• Subjects: Philippine poetry in English; women’s writing; writing the body; l’ecriture feminine; Creative Writing; Pacific Islands Languages and Societies; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/akda/vol1/iss3/2; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/akda/article/1019/viewcontent/1_dela_20Cruz_Woman_20in_20Parts_Akda_201_283_29.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

In this essay, the text of a craft lecture presented for the Bienvenido Santos Creative Writing Center, I discuss the interrelationship between gender and poetry. I present a close-reading of “Dreamweavers” by Marjorie Evasco, followed by a recital and critical description of five of my own poems. T...