Poems from I Look at My Body and See the Source of My Shame: Ecstasy Facsimile ("Canvasbacks will swim in the polluted river," "Meanwhile, real life," and "The river is a stadium")

• Main Author: Cayanan, Mark Anthony
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
• Subjects: poetry; Creative Writing; Poetry
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/english-faculty-pubs/81; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1080&context=english-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The three poems are part of a manuscript I'm currently working on, which is my attempt to project a mode of disclosure, even as the method of composition--which involves the liberal extraction and combination of passages from several intertexts--works against this seeming tonality. All the poem...