Eileen Tabios
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Somebody’s Coda
1. Forget All Ancestors
2. Forget An Archipelago
3. Forget the Stance of Cliffs Meeting Water
4. Forget the Protection of His Diamonds
5. Forget How Beauty Dislocates
6. Forget the Plasticity of Recognition
7. Forget the First Woman General
8. Forget the Language of Scars
9. Forget the Colonoscopy
10. Forget a Gorilla Can Be Fingerprinted
11. Forget the Engineers of Lexus
12. Forget Your Skin Was Ruin
13. Forget the Spiral That is Memory’s Perspective
14. Forget Baby Priests With Profiles Forsworn to Donatello
15. Forget the Exploded World Coming Down Like Rain
16. Forget Eyes Widening To Pull In More of the World
17. Forget the Logic of Amnesia
18. Forget Your Mother’s Blood in the Sangria
19. Forget the Song Inside the Stone
20. Forget Quaffing Sweet Jerez, and Wings Flared As If Posing for Rembrandt (aka I Remember You, Philip Lamantia)
21. Forget That Summer in Rome
22. Forget Pushkin, Your Beloved Pig and a Harpist When You Forgot Dementia
23. “forget a carapace, then its splitting”
24. Forget the Shadow of Gray
25. Forget the Binary of Refugees Vs. Art
26. Forget the Religion That Proclaims We Began As Orphaned
27. Forget Ars Poetica
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Eileen R. Tabios loves books, and has released more than 20 print, three electronic and 1 CD poetry collections; an art essay collection; a “collected novels” book; a poetry essay/interview anthology; a short story collection; and an experimental biography. Her most recent release is SUN STIGMATA (Sculpture Poems) (Marsh Hawk Press, 2014). She has also exhibited visual art and visual poetry in the United States and Asia. Recipient of the Philippines’ National Book Award for Poetry for her first poetry collection, she has crafted an award-winning body of work that is unique for melding ekphrasis with transcolonialism. She maintains a biblioliphic blog, “Eileen Verbs Books“; edits Galatea Resurrects, a popular poetry review; steers the literary and arts publisher Meritage Press; and frequently curates thematic online poetry projects including LinkedIn Poetry Recommendations (a recommended list of contemporary poetry books).