Antiemetic for Homesickness by Romalyn Ante Edmund Blunden One of his tutelary spirits

One of his tutelary spirits is the great Leopardi

Phillis Levin

and what they can give us today

and many previous translators have attempted to replicate them

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Antiemetic for Homesickness by Romalyn Ante Edmund Blunden One of his tutelary spiritsThe poems in Romalyn Ante's luminous debut build a bridge between two worlds: journeying from the country 'na nagluwal sa 'yo' that gave birth to you to a new life in the United Kingdom. Steeped in the richness of Filipino folklore, and studded with Tagalog, these poems speak of the ache of assimilation and the complexities of belonging, telling the stories of generations of migrants who find exile through employment through the voices of the mothers