00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862137260 Buklod 20250217110637.0 g||| | || || ta 181012s2016 xx r |||| e|eng d 9789715067836 (iLib)UPBAG-00031760465 BC-69726 Reader's Knowledge Bookstore Php350.00 Prof. Junely Lazaga DML BAG rda eng PS 9993 M37 L66 2016 Marfil, Dawn Marie Nicole L. author. Looking for polaris a memoir of losing and finding Dawn Laurente Marfil. Manila, Philippines University of Santo Tomas Publishing House 2016. xvi, 162 pages 21 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Confessions of an ex-beauty queen -- Sewing selves -- An order for costumes -- Something different -- Peachie -- Roche's limit -- Two mountains that i climbed and the one i didn't... sort of -- Black hole heart -- Looking for polaris: poetics of finding and losing. "Dawn Laurente Marfil's debut collection of autobiographical narratives, is remarkable for the way it oscillates almost breathlessly between the confessional and the commentary, with metaphor serving as the fragile and scintillant bridge between these experiential realms, whose common ground is memory -- here at once invigorated and disabused by the transfigurings of an exuberant, humorous, and reflexive imagination. In essay after essay, we are presented memoir pieces that appear unforgiving in their candor and hyperbole, and yet their deeper truth is always already implicit in the desirous investment of the verbal gesture itself: the interest -- and the clemency -- that art extends, again and again, towards life."--Page 4 of cover. Philippine essays (English). Authors, Filipino 21st century Biography. FI UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN PS 9993 M37 L66 2016 Book