Insides She Swallowed

Passionate and sensuous to the limit of synesthesia, these poems address both the mind and body of the reader. A verbal magician, a show-stopping performer, the author educates, stimulates, and moves us through her realization and empowerment of images. Her love of family, familiarity with death, sexualization of everyday life, politics of liberation - these themes are transformed before our eyes into kindling and fed to a flame of such intensity as is rarely to be found in contemporary poetry...in the Philippines, during People Power, when, marking I's on their foreheads, the boys cried Laban! Laban!, laying their thin brown bodies down as a road of bones before tanks, simple only as boys who believe can be, their hair tangling together and black, a twisting mass, moist as kelp.

ISBN 0981669387   Weight (grammes) 132 ISBN13 9780981669380 (What's this?)   Published in Albuquerque, NM Publisher West End Press   Height (mm) 229 Imprint West End Press   Width (mm) 152 Format Paperback   Spine width (mm) 5 Publication date 15 Oct 2009   Academic level General Pages 80

		Learning To Eat
		Childhood Parts
		Before Dinner
		Filipinos Don't Have Streets
		Blackface
		The Body Is a Host of Want
		Then-Scleroderma
		Bamboo
		Blood, Sister
		Talking Tagalog
		Wanted: Encyclopedia Missing from Move
		The Field
		Fresno State: the Peace Garden, August 2006
		Abaya
		New Dog
		Honeysuckle for Little Sister
		The Weight of Water
		Left Over
		Railroading Is Dangerous Business
		Sound Pressure
		On a Fingering of Oneself
		The Visitor
		It Should All End Like This
		Colossus of Cathedral Peak, Tuolumne Meadows
		Elysian
		Pollock's Lavender Mist Number
		My Friend
		Planting Tomatoes for the First Time
		Driving through the Desert East
		Epithalamium for My Mother

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