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    Gift: Poems
    Gift: Poems
    Gift: Poems
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    Gift: Poems

    By Justine Camacho-Tajonera

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    This is the first collection of Justine Camacho-Tajonera's poetry, spanning earlier published poems and poems from her blog, Claiming Alexandria, beautifully illustrated by Melissa dela Torre.

    "This first collection resonates in its deceptive mildness, where it is expansively lyrical but also intellectually grafted to mature commitments as it spans voids and barriers of cultures, broken affinities, and reckless children crossing back to take their due, even as fragile bridges burn." - D.M. Reyes

    "Justine Camacho-Tajonera explores landscapes of memory and longing with a clear and unwavering eye. Even as she writes of her travels in different parts of the world, her poetry remains deeply personal and engaging. Gift is a splendid first collection." - Jim Pascual Agustin

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJustine Camacho-Tajonera
    Release dateMay 20, 2014
    ISBN9781310774713
    Gift: Poems
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    Justine Camacho-Tajonera

    Justine Camacho-Tajonera is a poet and writer by vocation and a marketer and digital space explorer by profession.

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      This book of poems is a gift. To step aside from my busy life and contemplate the in-betweens, the fleeting moments, all important, yet passing. These words have traveled to me a long distance, but in this short time, you've given me a piece of your sky. Thanks.

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