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Chapters (52)
  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. A GENESIS OF WE, CLEAVED
  4. THE BAMBOO’S INSOMNIA
  5. 1.
  6. POLYGLOT INCANTATION
  7. HUMMINGBIRD DIWATA
  8. EL MÁS SUPREMO
  9. MANILA MANGO
  10. AGAIN, SHE TELLS THE FIRST STORY
  11. UPLAND DANCE
  12. A PARABLE
  13. DUYONG 1
  14. DUYONG 2
  15. DUYONG 3
  16. DUYONG 4
  17. DUYONG 5
  18. DRAGONFLIES
  19. GARDEN
  20. ESTUARY
  21. JUNEAU
  22. ESTUARY 2
  23. 1.
  24. 1.
  25. SEA INCANTATION
  26. EVE SPEAKS
  27. THE BAMBOO’S INSOMNIA 2
  28. CROSSING
  29. VISITATION
  30. 1.
  31. A LITTLE BIT ABOUT LOLA ILANG
  32. PANANAGHOY
  33. PASIG
  34. HOW I NO LONGER BELIEVE IN PIOUS WOMEN
  35. SHE LAMENTS UNNUMBERED LOSSES
  36. A CHORUS OF VILLAGERS SING A SONG FROM ANOTHER TIME NOW ONLY A MEMORY
  37. THE VILLAGERS SING OF THE WOMAN WHO BECOMES A WAVE WHO BECOMES THE WATER WHO ...
  38. EVE SPEAKS 2
  39. IN THE CITY, A NEW CONGREGATION FINDS HER
  40. EVE’S AUBADE
  41. HAVING BEEN CAST, EVE IMPLORES
  42. HAVING BEEN CAST, EVE IMPLORES 2
  43. MEDICINE SONG
  44. WHY GIRLS DO NOT SPEAK
  45. TOCAYA
  46. ASWANG
  47. NOTES
  48. Acknowledgements
  49. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  50. BOA EDITIONS, LTD. AMERICAN POETS CONTINUUM SERIES
  51. COLOPHON
  52. Copyright Page

Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her BA in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, and her MFA at San Francisco State University. She is the author of Gravities of Center (Arkipelago, 2003), and Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish, 2005), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. She has taught Creative Writing at Mills College and Philippine Studies at University of San Francisco. She lives with her husband, poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland.

BOA EDITIONS, LTD. AMERICAN POETS CONTINUUM SERIES

BOA EDITIONS, LTD. AMERICAN POETS CONTINUUM SERIES