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Marsh Hawk Press, Incorporated, paperback

Publication Date: May 30, 2023

Publisher Marketing: The title poem, “Because I Love You, I Become War,” is a poem of feminist genius, deserving to be in the pantheon of all-time brilliant poems!–Sascha A. Akhtar, author of #LoveLikeBlood

Raw[ness] exudes from this collection of poems and poetics prose about love and war, both corporal and terrestrial. Whether speaking of “rose petals yawning like little girls, like the daughters I never bore,” or a California wildfire’s “yellowed skies” and “smoke taint,” even color is narrative in Eileen Tabios’ dexterous hands.

“Since her first works, Eileen Tabios’ performances–in prose, poetic artifices, and mixed constructions or inventions–have always sharpened the cutting-edge of contemporary global cultural events. Art has morphed into a dazzling multiverse of sensuous happenings. Undoing the conceptual habit of reframing and parodic mimicry, she has created a new form of montage in texts such as Because I Love you, I Become War and President Duterte Socializes Media, etc.–witty humor jostling with sharp critique and graceful Spieltrieb. Enjoy in this volume the exercise of a rare intelligence that weaves the semiotic subtleties of icon, index, and symbol into epiphanies and discoveries that are, indeed, new additions to our world as we know it so far.”–E. San Juan, Jr., author of Maelstrom over the Killing Fields