Amphibian : poems /
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 geogr...
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Evanston, Illinois :
Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press,
[2026].
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Table of Contents:
- 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.