The Ice Beneath the Earth

Brian Ascalon Roley's poetry collection, The Ice Beneath the Earth, is an exploration of the intergenerational effects of the violence of war, illness and occupation on individual lives and families. The collections' personas and characters, who belong to the Navarro clan of his previous works, live in the shadow of the intertwined histories, at times violent, of the United States and its former colony in Asia, the Philippines. Set in the Philippine diaspora in the United States, and in the Philippines itself, this collection spans the 20th Century and explores this history's aftereffects on the level of personal lives. The characters in these poems grapple with the challenges of disability, illness, and caregiving, as well as their effects on familial relations, in the context of the complex interplay between these countries' entangled cultures.

Author: Brian Ascalon Roley Ascalon Roley
Publisher: C&r Press
Published: 01/29/2024
Pages: 58
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.19lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.14d
ISBN: 9781949540475

About the Author
Roley, Brian Ascalon Roley Ascalon: - rian Ascalon Roley is a writer and professor of Philippine and American descent. A recent National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellow, he is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Miami University. He has held additional fellowships, research appointments and residencies from the University of Cambridge, Cornell University, the Ohio Arts Council, Djerassi, Ragdale, the VCCA, and others. His short works in several genres (Fiction, Poetry, CNF and Hybrid) have appeared in many prestigious journals and in anthologies from Norton and Penguin, as well as several best selling anthologies in the Philippines. His works include American Son (WW Norton), The Last Mistress of Jose Rizal (Northwestern UP), and Ambuscade (FLP Open Chapbook Competition Prize). Learn more about the author at brianroley.com.

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