Description
Poetry. Art. Asian & Asian American Studies. SUN STIGMATA is a sculpture-inspired poetry collection from an award-winning poet known for her innovative approaches. The book includes poetics prose and an art essay.
"Eileen Tabios's poems twist like silk scarves caught in the wind, offering ardent calligraphies and sly subversions of the passions, so many ways of naming lucidity."—Andrew Joron
"In her new collection, SUN STIGMATA, Eileen Tabios has sculpted poems of light and shadow by using the blade of time to cut through stone. What is revealed as 'through a ripped hole in space,' is rendered 'as unforgiving as a sniper's eye...' With lapidary precision, Tabios links the personal to the eternal while deepening what is essentially human: '...did the Greeks attain / Purity? / Did I earn the moments / I made my mother cry...' Whether she is probing Rimbaud in the act of assigning colors to vowels, or recalling a lost generation of women in Manila 'hugging ashed corners of hopeless streets,' the voice is urgent and oracular, riding the radar between orders, implicit and explicit, in time and space. 'The most implacable border / can be the invisible / so that nothing is hidden from sight.' SUN STIGMATA reminds us of what art can do when it rises to the level of Mystery in which the initiates are transformed: the stigmata incarnated on these pages bleed spirit and awaken soul."—Paul Pines
Author Bio
Poet and writer Eileen Tabios was born in the Philippines and moved to the United States when she was 10. She earned a BA in political science from Barnard College and an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business. Founder and editor of the online poetry review journal Galatea Resurrects (A Poetry Engagement), Tabios has authored essays, fiction, and collections of mixed-genre writing. Her many collections of poetry include THE IN(TER)VENTION OF THE HAY (NA)KU: SELECTED TERCETS 1996-2019 (Marsh Hawk Press, 2019), WITNESS IN THE CONVEX MIRROR (Tinfish Press, 2019), MURDER DEATH RESURRECTION: A POETRY GENERATOR (Dos Madres Press, 2018), Hiraeth: Tercets from the Last Archipelago (2018), Love in a Time of Belligerence (2017), AMNESIA: SOMEBODY'S MEMOIR (Black Raddish Books, 2016), THE CONNOISSEUR OF ALLEYS (Marsh Hawk Press, 2016), INVENT(ST)ORY (Dos Madres Press, 2015), and Sun Stigmata (2014), among many others.
Author City: SAN FRANCISCO, CA USA