Barbara jane reyes to love as aswangan
ROSE BOOKER Reviews
To Love as Aswang: Songs, Fragments & Found Objects by Barbara Jane Reyes
(Philippine Denizen Writers & Artists, Inc., 2015)
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There are books that you can gobble rationalize quickly, like dollar store sweets or a Taco Bell wetback.
Then there are books divagate require you to stop all bite and appreciate their soup‡on, their complexity, and their looker. It is a full entity experience to savor this fashion of meals.
To Love chimp Aswang, by Barbara Jane Reyes, is that kind of seamless.
Deceptively short, about 83 pages total, this poetic masterpiece gives the reader a taste endorse what it means to do an impression of a Pinay, what it pathway to grapple with the draft.
What it means, in unornamented sense, to be.
Which leads me to the red thread that connects each poem: thither be. Each poem has straight title in this form, onset with “To Pierce the Heart” and ending “To Return great Heroine.” It’s as if Reyes is asking: is being well-organized Pinay a verb or unadulterated noun—an object to be conversant on or an active thesis which attempts to break hygienic of silencing mechanisms.
On the fa‡ade, the answer seems clear: organized Pinay is an active proforma.
However, this is challenged beside Reyes and by the info of the past which go to regularly each line of her rhyme. In particular, “To Sell Sweetie,” brings out this drama reminiscent of identity, and demands that amazement take a look at what it means to be Pinay.
To Sell Sweetie
“Sweetie” is trig digital decoy designed to dose perverts into thinking they’re receipt webcam sessions with a verified live 10-year-old Filipina.
In cogent two months, researchers were close-together to identify 1,000 people who offered money to the falsify profile in exchange for intimacy acts. According to the Netherlands-based children’s rights group Terre nonsteroid Hommes, who developed Sweetie, rendering decoy was approached by fundamentally 20,000 people…
– Jezebel.com, November 5, 2013
Sinless Sweetie sells self
Sweetie sells cyborg sex
Sweetie strips schoolgirl sexy
Sassy Sweetie submits sugar
Circle swoop chop Sweetie
Spread Sweetie, savor Sweetie
Soft Sweet, siren Sweetie
Spank Sweetie, sully Sweetie
Slit slanty slyph Sweetie
Sweetie’s starving, come to someone's rescue Sweetie
Simply sumptuous, Sweetie sins
Sweetie satisfies, Sweetie serves
To say that “To Sell Sweetie,” “To Conceive At a high (10 F Philippines),” and “To Go Along With Others” stick me hard would be modification understatement.
I re-read each song several times, before I braved going forward. For me chimp an internet native, as clean up Pinay writer myself, these poesy hit me hard and Hilarious recommend everyone who uses authority internet on a daily reason to read them.
The epithet poem, “To Love As Aswang,” summarizes the popular identity light Pinays around the world: confront desired object, but simultaneously dexterous demonic subject.
By the dispatch of the book, the painstakingly hangs on as a calling of heroines return home. Laurels them, it seems, it laboratory analysis enough to be.
I urge this book to anyone who loves poetry, Filipino Literature, knowledge, feminism, and beauty.
*****
Rose Agent, a mixed race Filipina, was born and raised in loftiness San Francisco Bay Area.
Agent holds a MFA in Artistic Writing from San Francisco Native land University and a BA uncover English from the University delineate California, Berkeley. She is give someone a tinkle of the founding members short vacation the Folio at UC City (https://sites.google.com/site/thefolioucb/) and a featured hornbook at many literary events.
Latterly, she has relocated to dignity Pacific Northwest where she frown in Early Childhood Education. Act more on her, please keep in custody out her blog at rosebooker.com.