The artist : hand and breath / Pearl Gamboa Doromal

Includes bibliographical references.

Enigma -- Waling- waling -- The end of a song -- The old photograph -- A profile of two cities -- Quiche Lorraine -- The cocktail party -- Winter sky --Winter trees -- Snow twilight -- The last goodbye -- Write a poem for me -- The oldest profession -- Two children -- Germany countryside.

The poetry collection, recalls the poetic moods of two centuries, the nineteenth and the twentieth, and is nourished from the best of both. The readers of her poetry, in discovering these particular influences in the poems, will appreciate the dominant stance of the past century that has bestowed the delicate touch, almost fragile, with which Pearl depicts the bright green world of creation-even while simultaneously, by using the devices of poetic art, she transforms this gossamer touch into a vehicle for expressing life's weighty and inescapable truths.