Trill & Mordent [Paperback]

Luisa A. Igloria (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 92 pages
• Publisher: WordTech Communications (September 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932339949
• ISBN-13: 978-1932339949
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,882,489 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Originally from Baguio City in the Philippines, LUISA A. IGLORIA (previously published as Maria Luisa Aguilar-Cariño) has four daughters, and now makes her home in Virginia with most of her family. She is a Professor of Creative Writing and English, and Director of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University.

Her work has appeared or been accepted in numerous anthologies and journals including Poetry, Crab Orchard Review, The Missouri Review, Indiana Review, Poetry East, Umbrella, Sweet, qarrtsiluni, poemeleon, Smartish Pace, Rattle, The North American Review, Bellingham Review, Shearsman (UK), PRISM International (Canada), Poetry Salzburg Review (Austria), The Asian Pacific American Journal, and TriQuarterly.

Various national and international literary awards include the 2009 Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize for JUAN LUNA'S REVOLVER (University of Notre Dame Press), the 2007 49th Parallel Poetry Prize (selected by Carolyne Wright for the Bellingham Review), the 2007 James Hearst Poetry Prize (selected by former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser for the North American Review); Honorable Mention in the 2010 Potomac Review Poetry Contest; Finalist in the first Narrative Poetry Contest (2009); Finalist, the 2007 Indiana Review Poetry Prize; the 2006 National Writers Union Poetry Prize (selected by Adrienne Rich); the 2006 Richard Peterson Poetry Prize (Crab Orchard Review); the 2006 Stephen Dunn Award for Poetry; Finalist, the 2005 George Bogin Memorial Award for Poetry (Poetry Society of America); the 2004 Fugue Poetry Prize(selected by Ellen Bryant Voigt); Finalist, the 2003 Larry Levis Editors Prize for Poetry from The Missouri Review; Finalist, the 2003 Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press); the first Sylvia Clare Brown Fellowship, Ragdale Foundation (2007); a 2003 partial fellowship to the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg; two Pushcart Prize nominations; a 1998 Fellowship at the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers in Lasswade, the Midlothians, Scotland; and the 1998 George Kent Award for Poetry.

Luisa is an eleven-time recipient of the Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature in three genres (poetry, nonfiction, and short fiction) and its Hall of Fame distinction; the Palanca award is the Philippines' highest literary prize.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Muscular and Important Poetry, March 12, 2006

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Daniel Salerno (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trill & Mordent (Paperback)

"Regarding History," The opening poem of Ingloria's Trill and Mordent, is stunning in its ability to evoke a moment--these early days of the 21st century--and a response to it that is both personal and collective. That is the paradox that defines this fine book, which is topical without being impersonal, and personal without being irrelevant. And there are gems like "Goldberg Variations," one of the finest poems about music i have ever read, and one which celebrates a sister art in terms worthy. Note this wonderfully expanded and evocative metaphor, almost Classical in its complexity:
"the equivalent.../of marbles they idled with on the coverlet
all night, admiring each globe that trapped
in its center a secret configuration, a tongue
of lapis lazuli or crest of amber, each flower
or flame a dance the universe set to spinning,
sighing or falling to the polished floors
that sang each note back, as clearly
as music--"
The poem is far from mere music appreciation in verse, however--by the end its aesthetic musings have dissolved into something both focused and small, both personal and personal and self reflexive: a turn characteristic of this lovely book as a whole. Heartily recommended.

Daniel Salerno
Boston University

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Trill & Mordent, October 14, 2005

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Ophelia Jordan "O. Jordan" (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trill & Mordent (Paperback)

Igloria is a master at her craft. I'm in awe at how her poems surprise--each time they grab, they pulse, they touch, tenderly. Each time something close to heart, and at the same time marvelous, is revealed. I'm excited about this new gem!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, October 3, 2005

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Persephone (VA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trill & Mordent (Paperback)

This latest book from poet Luisa Igloria is possibly her best and most thoughtful work ever. She is already so internationally lauded that I am constantly in awe of how she still manages to exceed her own standards and put out work both more beautiful and wise than her previous collections of poetry.

Trill & Mordent is amazing :)