Footnotes to Algebra

Poetry. FOOTNOTES TO ALGEBRA, a new book from previously-uncollected poems by Eileen Tabios, written since 1995. These include a special trio of poems from a summer spent hangin' out with Philip Lamantia, the poem "Pygmalion's Embrace" which is a de facto architectural plan for a physical poetic space she is creating in Napa Valley terrain, her first (and so far only) translation of a poem into her birth tongue Ilokano, ekphrastic "baby poems", the poem "Justice" through which she'd...
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Poetry. FOOTNOTES TO ALGEBRA, a new book from previously-uncollected poems by Eileen Tabios, written since 1995. These include a special trio of poems from a summer spent hangin' out with Philip Lamantia, the poem "Pygmalion's Embrace" which is a de facto architectural plan for a physical poetic space she is creating in Napa Valley terrain, her first (and so far only) translation of a poem into her birth tongue Ilokano, ekphrastic "baby poems", the poem "Justice" through which she'd achieved a goal of garnering for her wine cellar a jeroboam of the Judds Hill Winery cabernet by winning its annual poetry contest, and the series "Girl Singing" which generated 151 multi-genre responses or translations from 47 poets worldwide to create the anthology 1000 Views of "Girl Singing" edited by John Bloomberg-Rissman and released by Leafe Press (U.K.).