The Firetrees Burn All Summer and Other Poems

Salavador Bernal's first ever collection of poetry in English confirms what theatre-goers always recognized-the man's rare gift for deftly conveying finely nuanced feelings in extraordinarily patterned and highly textured images. With this volume of poems, Bernal reaffirms his role as one of the most significant artists of our time. — Soledad S. Reyes

In Salvador Bernal's poems, the reader is swept along by the most casual ease and flair with which the poet handles worlds and images in structing his rhythms and sense. This is poetry that affirms the power of verse in arresting fleeting lived moments and fixing them in our imagination as readers through finely crafted turns of phrase as effortless as breathing or seeing —Bievenido L. Lumbera

Bernal's eye us that of photographer, which deftly catches an image in flight, the moment of insight that in turns sets off a flurry of meaning. —Nicanor G. Tiongson

A fresh and unnerving collection of renaissance eloquence and post-modernist acridity, Bernal's poems of the mind employ fabric, fruits, techne, trees, chairs, canisters, laces, unicorns, and green island to fashion gossamers of the personal with filigrees of the social. I can never resist his rendition of the lyrical — Benilda S. Santos

Published in 2000 by Bookmark, Inc.

97 pages