Selected poems - Alunan, Merlie M. (Diliman, Quezon City University of the Philippines Press, 2004)
Table of Contents: Author's Note From Hearthstone, Sacred Tree: Anjanette, First Communion -- Bringing The Dolls -- Mayanne, Five Years Old -- The Boy Abraham -- The Boys -- Bonding -- Conspiracy -- From Poems From Green Valley: Telly -- Emy -- For Edith: Hearthstone, Sacred Tree -- From Dream Cycles: Dream Poem 7: Mayanne: Twenty Years Old -- Poet-Soldier, Drunk -- Nati-San -- Old Crystals -- Homecoming -- We Kept a Jarful of Keys -- Young Man in a Jeepney -- Last Light -- Sort of a Love Poem -- Medusa -- On Painting Her Portrait -- Two Poems For VNS: The Reluctant Warlock -- To A Young Man Aspiring To Wizardry -- To A Poet Caught in The Will of The Sea -- From Amina Among The Angels: Late Wind, Leaf and Moonlight -- Inviting A Gnome to Your Kitchen -- Paloma -- My Daughter Anjanette, Growing Up -- Crab Story -- Bienvenida -- The Wisdom Of Travelers -- Baguio, The Last Day -- Mana Iday's Last Stand -- Pundol, Born in The Lowlands, Laments his Father Lost in The Forest when the Volcano Exploded -- Fallen in Battle in The Mountains of Santa Catalina, Negros Oriental, 1987 A.D., a Hill Warrior talks to his Daughter, Three Years Old, from the Trail where his Bones lie Unburied -- Mandirigmang Bundok ng Santa Catalina, Nalugmok sa Labanan sa Kabundukan ng Negros Oriental, A.D. 1987, kinausap ang anak iyang babae, may Tatlong Taong Gulang, mula sa landas kung saan nangalat ang kanyang mga butong hindi nalibing -- Amina Among The Angels -- As if Summer Were Forever -- Hunger -- Rosas De Piedra -- Her Neighbor, The Insomniac Birds -- Addressing The Muse -- Poetry.
Contain poem selections from the author's books Heartstone, Sacred Tree (1993) and Amina among the angels (1997)
Keywords: Poetry -- Collections