Open arms

Paulina Constancia, from the island of Cebu, the Philippines, is an artist and poet with a penchant for experimentation. It was during a creative self-exile in the colonial town of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico in 1999 that Paulina fell in love with a medium that from her experience best conjugated and captured the fascinating tones and tides of human emotion – the Spanish language. Thus, it is no wonder that Paulina has opted to make this book, Open Arms/Brazos Abiertos, her first collection of poetry, a bilingual edition. This serves as a kind of tribute to a language that has given her heart a new alternative voice.