The Experiment of the Tropics: Poems

**Finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards**Longlisted for The Believer Book Awards, 2020 Named 1 of 6...
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Author: Lawrence Lacambra Ypil
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Language: English
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The Experiment of the Tropics: Poems by Ypil, Lawrence Lacambra

The Experiment of the Tropics: Poems

$36.25

The Experiment of the Tropics: Poems

$36.25
Author: Lawrence Lacambra Ypil
Format: Paperback
Language: English

**Finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards**

Longlisted for The Believer Book Awards, 2020

Named 1 of 6 must-read poetry books in April 2019 by The Millions.

The co-winner of the inaugural Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize.

Through the lens of history and photography, The Experiment of the Tropics returns to early-twentieth-century Philippines during American occupation and asks, "How does one look at the past?"

By braiding the music of anthropology with the intimacy of the lyric, Lawrence Ypil explores history's archives and excavates a city, both real and imagined, that is constituted by the shimmer of petal and porch, coral and brass--a river-refrigerator where women catch their reflections on the sheen of magazines and men lean against the walls of old houses and beckon, come here. So, we approach.

Spare, musical, and erotic, The Experiment of the Tropics uses the intersection of text and image to meditate on the nature of a city and its longing, the revelatory power of photography, and the startling capacity of poetry to cut into the violent but redemptive parts of history.



Author: Lawrence Lacambra Ypil
Publisher: Gaudy Boy, LLC
Published: 04/06/2019
Pages: 72
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.15d
ISBN: 9780982814253

About the Author
Ypil, Lawrence Lacambra: - Lawrence Lacambra Ypil is a poet and essayist from Cebu, Philippines and recipient of the prestigious Ani ng Dangal award in 2019. He has received an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa and an MFA in poetry from Washington University in St Louis on a Fulbright Scholarship. His first book of poems, The Highest Hiding Place (2009) was given the Madrigal Gonzalez Best First Book Award, and his work has received numerous awards including The Academy of American Poets Prize, the Philippines Free Press Awards, and the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards. His work explores the intersection of text and image, poetry and prose, and the role of material culture in the construction of cultural memory and identity. He teaches creative writing at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.

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