Handspun Rosaries

Moving through memories of growing up as a Filipina American immigrant and her reflections on woman's place in a society still dripping Christian-centric values and reeking of colonial heritage, Dina Klarisse's Handspun Rosaries follows the poet's lifelong interrogation of God. This debut collection is a birds' eye-view of a lapsed Catholic's tectonic beliefs, its poetry mingling with prayer and narrative. In these communions, the poet scavenges for the remnants of faith left on her identity, re