Eileen R. Tabios is a poet working in multiple genres and in-between. She also loves books by writing, reading, publishing, critiquing, romancing and advocating for them. This blog will feature her bibliophilic activities with posts on current book engagements and links to her books and projects related to books.

Thursday, July 6, 2017

EXCAVATING INTO THE MAINSTREAM, WHERE POETRY BELONGS



The FilAm is a new online magazine for Filipino Americans perhaps focused on but with a scope beyond the nearly 300,000 Filipinos who live in the Tri-State of New York-New Jersey-Connecticut. I'm grateful that they recently reviewed EXCAVATING THE FILIPINO IN ME precisely because they're a "mainstream" publication. Thanks to editor Cristina Pastor. And thanks to M. Earl Smith for reviewing me; I appreciate the reviewer's thoughts that
"From both a material, textual, and bibliographic sense, Eileen Tabios’s “Excavating the Filipino in Me” turns [autobiography] conventions on their heads. Sometimes humorous, sometimes confessional, and sometimes a recorded history of a country torn by over a century of imperialism, the work presented therein allows the reader to trace the fault-lines of Filipino history along Tabios’s intimate scars."

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