AS REGARDS YOUR BUTTOCKS...

IRVING WEISS WRITES IN:

Blurbs are so obtrusive. I try to avoid reading them. A blurb for a collection of poems is practically an oxymoron, let alone a blurb for a book-length poem. And here I’ve been asked to blurb Eileen Tabios’s incredibly marvelous Alphabetikos! Let what is left of this blurb allow her great work to blurb itself as I entice the reader by opening it at random :

. . .the two banks of the buttocks

its two torrents of flesh

the only parts of the living world

where shorelines bridge over

where the stream flows in its own source

where banks follow a fixed watercourse,

where terra firma turns into running water

as its solidified flow sees its banks running off and away

land and water modeled into one absolute form

like the great ball of earth

on the first day of creation. . . .

All to the Good