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Phantompains

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Phantompains

By Therese EstacionNarrated by Therese Estacion

Phantompains

Length1h 33m

About this audiobook

Therese Estacion survived a rare infection that nearly killed her, but not without losing both her legs below the knees, several fingers, and reproductive organs. Phantompains is a visceral, imaginative collection exploring disability, grief and life by interweaving stark memories with dreamlike surrealism. Taking inspiration from Filipino horror and folk tales, Estacion incorporates some Visayan language into her work, telling stories of mermen, gnomes, and ogres that haunt childhood stories of the Philippines and, then, imaginings in her hospital room, where she spent months recovering after her operations. Estacion says she wrote these poems out of necessity: an essential task to deal with the trauma of hospitalization and what followed. Now, they are demonstrations of the power of our imaginations to provide catharsis, preserve memory, rebel and even to find self-love.

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Audiobook details

GenrePoetry

Length1 hr 33 mins

Narrated byTherese Estacion

FormatAudiobook

Publish dateJun 15, 2021

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Title

20ComaDreams

2Dedication

21Hands

3Introduction

22TheAmputeebytheMagnoliaTree

4Agta

23TheAbleBodiedGaze

5Duwende

24ReportonPhantompains

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6Afloat

25ICUI

7Tianak

26ICUII

8TheWhiteLadyofthePhilippines

27ICUIII

9Aswang

28ThinkingAboutThingsAgain

10BloodandAbsenceFlows

29EFI

11Ancho

30EFII

12LadyOfSorrows

31EFIII

13AmaApo

32EFIV

14SmokeStruck

33EFV

15TitoJoey

34Resources

16ElegyforAngKong

35Acknowledgments

17StayingPresent

36AbouttheAuthor

18Pee

37Credits

19IronBody

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