House of memory
/ Resil B. Mojares
- xvi, 283 pages : illustrations
Door Foyer: Writing column Casting stones into the sea Memorizing a face Grand hall: A history of the body Visayan erotica The naked and the nude Imagining giants Mactan in the eyes of Europe Photography as rape A surplus of souls The combat between carnival and lent Inventing paradise What healing means Marking time, making time Visayan love Songs beyond hearing Sailing to Sitangkai How to be invisible Dreams of flying Corners and corridors: The weightlessness of words The name my father gave me Notions of undress Catching souls Full of soul Harvest time Clearing the fields Explorers, tourists, travellers, vagabonds Navigating songs Postcards of ourselves What a gift means How we dance Heart and liver Gallery: Erap's English The art of the insult The art of expose Sitting on top of a volcano Looking for apparitions Stardust nights Hingyuon's story A hero in search of a monument Gloria in my mind The man who mistook his child for a box Beheading the heads Refectory: We are what we eat How to drink in Cebuano Study: Walking Traveling light Remembering rivers Inventing leisure Watching a storm How language speaks us Playing with words Basketball dreams Dreams of what we would rather be Novels dictated by crickets Photocopies At the mall The art of jeepney riding Sleeping in a motel The death of the typewriter Anterooms: Born of the public schools Growing up with Rizal The invention of death The pilgrimages we make The waning of the fiesta A houseful of books Cats Keeping a diary Raising a scientist Private rooms: War baby Coming home I never sang for my father