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Wind Bells
"The enchantment of emotions through solace and destruction."
This stunning debut collection by the Filipino poet Jessica Perez Dimalibot gives us insight into a different and magical world, one in which we witness first love, hope, and home in a brilliant new light.
True to the author's belief, we are souls living in human bodies that are destined to be on earth to experience, to feel, and to learn. Wind Bells is a book that speaks of humanness. It is a bilingual poetry collection written with English and Tagalog (Filipino language) interpretations.
From a journey of unrequited love, into the light and happy tones of affection, up to the aspirations and inadequacies of a person who gradually learned how to love one's self — we the readers discover the ability to value compassion even more.
This stunning debut collection by the Filipino poet Jessica Perez Dimalibot gives us insight into a different and magical world, one in which we witness first love, hope, and home in a brilliant new light.
True to the author's belief, we are souls living in human bodies that are destined to be on earth to experience, to feel, and to learn. Wind Bells is a book that speaks of humanness. It is a bilingual poetry collection written with English and Tagalog (Filipino language) interpretations.
From a journey of unrequited love, into the light and happy tones of affection, up to the aspirations and inadequacies of a person who gradually learned how to love one's self — we the readers discover the ability to value compassion even more.
100 pages, Paperback
Published October 10, 2020
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Jessica Perez Dimalibot
2 booksShe is the rabbit in the moon.
She adores the sea and rain.
She takes afternoon naps seriously.
She adores the sea and rain.
She takes afternoon naps seriously.
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February 24, 2023
Is your life filled with happiness, but wish someone electrocuted your nipples till you burn from the inside out and die?
Does everything in your life just find a way to work out exactly the way you want, but wish that you lived in a world where all newborn babies are born with cancer and AIDS?
Are you living the absolute best, most stress-free and pain-free existence, and yet think to yourself, “Yeah, no. Fuck this. I want to be fucking miserable”.
Then, BOY, do I have a book for you! Introducing Wind Bells, by rising star poet and professional happy hormone hater, Jessica Perez Dimalibot. A book so fucking depressing that Satan refuses to use it as a tool for torture in hell because that would be too “inhumane”.
Just from reading the first poem alone, I could already feel all hope I’ve ever had in life slip away between my fingertips like fine grains of sand. It is no question that Ms. Dimalibot was armed with great skill, talent, and a pen whose ink flows from the empty void of souls who have all given up on their dreams. Truly, never in my life have I ever read literature so enticing that I would bet no reader would dare doubt that Ms. Dimalibot wrote straight from her Heart and Mind; Her mind being a bottomless pit of despair and her heart being a hallow crevice where a normal human’s heart is supposed to be. Each line of poetry is so emotional and moving, I could swear that with each page turn, I hear an infant being stabbed to death in the distance.
Such incredible talent put on paper; it would be a mistake not to recommend it to anyone. I even recommended it to my good friend Oizys, the greek goddess of misery, anxiety, grief, depression, and misfortune, who upon reading it said “yeah nah, bro. This chick’s got issues”.
Overall, 10/10. Would read again and kms
Does everything in your life just find a way to work out exactly the way you want, but wish that you lived in a world where all newborn babies are born with cancer and AIDS?
Are you living the absolute best, most stress-free and pain-free existence, and yet think to yourself, “Yeah, no. Fuck this. I want to be fucking miserable”.
Then, BOY, do I have a book for you! Introducing Wind Bells, by rising star poet and professional happy hormone hater, Jessica Perez Dimalibot. A book so fucking depressing that Satan refuses to use it as a tool for torture in hell because that would be too “inhumane”.
Just from reading the first poem alone, I could already feel all hope I’ve ever had in life slip away between my fingertips like fine grains of sand. It is no question that Ms. Dimalibot was armed with great skill, talent, and a pen whose ink flows from the empty void of souls who have all given up on their dreams. Truly, never in my life have I ever read literature so enticing that I would bet no reader would dare doubt that Ms. Dimalibot wrote straight from her Heart and Mind; Her mind being a bottomless pit of despair and her heart being a hallow crevice where a normal human’s heart is supposed to be. Each line of poetry is so emotional and moving, I could swear that with each page turn, I hear an infant being stabbed to death in the distance.
Such incredible talent put on paper; it would be a mistake not to recommend it to anyone. I even recommended it to my good friend Oizys, the greek goddess of misery, anxiety, grief, depression, and misfortune, who upon reading it said “yeah nah, bro. This chick’s got issues”.
Overall, 10/10. Would read again and kms
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