MOI WINGS HIDE DAGGERS!

ADDIE TSAI WRITES IN:

"I am a bird," writes Eileen Tabios in this astonishing new collection, "the voice you clutched out of my throat a pearl in your palm." It is a time of linguistic confusion and confoundment, where, the constructions of an emotional English are held victim to the state of a country constantly up in arms, both through words and daggers. Tabios has managed to address, defying aesthetic reduction, in this fearless book, what happens to a poet's voice, when language, that which we hold so absolute, becomes as amorphous as a jellyfish wriggling its way onto the sand.