“What we often overlook is the connection between poetry and
pain. This is because essentially a poem is a song, which connotes
joy and celebration. But there likewise are sad songs. They,
however, no matter how deep the hurt is within them, because
they must needs go through a process of artistic justification,
comes out in the end as victorious. In its being expressed in a
measured, well-thought-out way, the pain is distanced from the
singer or poet and in the end transmuted into wisdom. This we
find in poem after poem in Denver Torres’ collection.” (Blurb)
--- Simeon Dumdum
hate-eating birds
Poems
by Denver Ejem Torres
Copyright 2018
ISBN 978-971-9094-25-8
148 mm x 211 mm
77 pages
Price: Php 250.00