{"product_id":"paul-maravillas-jerusalem-in-between-tongues","title":"Paul Maravillas Jerusalem, In Between Tongues","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Between Tongues\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by Paul Maravillas Jerusalem, the tongue is both muscle and metaphor, an implement of desire and an instrument of language. Reckoning with the archipelagic Philippines and the island nation of Singapore, with the past and the present, with origin and destination, the poet negotiates the boundaries between the two through a perpetual act of code switching, gaining mastery in sleep (\u003c\/span\u003e“\u003cspan\u003eawed, that I had spoken my language fluently\u003c\/span\u003e”\u003cspan\u003e) or in song (\u003c\/span\u003e“…\u003cspan\u003emy tongue, a serpent\/ shedding Singapore seasoned skin).\u003c\/span\u003e” \u003cspan\u003eHabitation with any of the two countries is fraught\u003c\/span\u003e—\u003cspan\u003eas with the body of the other\u003c\/span\u003e—\u003cspan\u003ebut the invitation remains: \u003c\/span\u003e“\u003cspan\u003ei want\/ you:\/\/ to find my land,\/ occupy me, invent\/ the idea of territory, and claim it for yours.\u003c\/span\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaul Maravillas Jerusalem\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a Singapore-born Filipino who is an undergraduate student at Yale-NUS College, a liberal arts college in Singapore, where he is a major in Literature. His works have been published by the \u003cem\u003eQuarterly Literary Review Singapore\u003c\/em\u003e, and appeared in \u003cem\u003eLikhaan 10: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSingPoWriMo 2016: The Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eASINGBOL: An Archaeology of the Singaporean Poetic Form\u003c\/em\u003e, among others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaul Maravillas Jerusalem, \u003cem\u003eIn Between Tongues\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2017. deciBels series 2. ISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-922181-92-3\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e102mm x 154mm. 26pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40527753668,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Jerusalem_db2_cover_3.jpg?v=1501220958","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/ja\/products\/paul-maravillas-jerusalem-in-between-tongues","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}