Poems from 'I Look at My Body and See the Source of My Shame: Ecstasy Facsimile ('My favorite saint tells me I complain too often about my soul's shortcomings' and 'We own none of it')

• Main Author: Cayanan, Mark Anthony
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2019
• Subjects: poetry; Creative Writing; Poetry
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/english-faculty-pubs/82; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1081&context=english-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The 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. The poems contain...