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.
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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