June's featured poet is Jon Pineda whose poetry manuscript, BIRTHMARK , recently received the 2003 Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry Open Competition. Congratulations, Jon! BIRTHMARK is the first poetry book by this recipient of a Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Art Fellowship. New work also is appearing or forthcoming in CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW, DRUNKENBOAT.COM, PUERTO DEL SOL , and in the anthologies FILIPINO WRITERS IN THE DIASPORA, ASIAN AMERICAN POETRY: THE NEXT GENERATION , and SCREAMING MONKEYS . Jon lives in Virginia with his wife and son. Here is a poem from Jon's award-winning manuscript:

ARBORETUM

Maybe the great tragedy of my childhood is that I could never keep a fish
alive for longer than a week. On Sunday, I'd slide a blade on the cheek
of a bag & watch everything empty into a round, glass bowl: water, fish, &
beige strands that rose when each suddenness rippled from its body.

By Thursday, the fish would stay still longer than usual, & by Saturday,
the inevitable. It happened many times. Gold ones with flecks of maroon
in the shape of Virginia would disappear behind the film of their eyes,
& the silver & black ones, they became a night full of stars.

In college, I watched a performance of Romeo & Juliet in the clearing
of an arboretum. I had brought someone with me. She
knew nothing about the fish. We were just starting to date,
though as I listened to the play, I knew we would never die together.

Sometimes the lessons are this quiet -- someone whispering
as if feigning to be sincere. Afterwards, a few of the actors disappeared
into the woods, & we followed them to the edge, to a large, man-made pond
where a bridge spanned its width. We stood in the middle, tapping

the blond planks, their edges slightly green, fresh, & watched as the koi rose,
every color suddenly appearing to feed on our shadows.

("Arboretum" was previously published in Poetry Northwest .)

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PIN@YS BLOG!

A "blog" is an online journal or diary (the word conflates "web" and "log"). Recently, many poets and writers have taken to blogging their way through cyberspace. Among poetics blogs (e.g. Eileen Tabios's "WinePoetics") you often will see poetics theories and new poems in the immediacy of their formation. I also mention Eileen's blog because it provides a comprehensive link to several valuable poetry blogs ranging from Ron Silliman's Blog to the more perky journals of various emerging poets. Here are several blogs by Filipinos which addresses literature (if you know of more such blogs, let us know!):

Michelle Bautista: http://gura.blogspot.com/
Ian Rosales Casocot: http://sandwichspy.blogspot.com/
Caterina Fake: http://caterina.net/
Jean Gier: http://nightjar2.blogspot.com/
Aimee Nezhukumatathil: http://aimeenez.blogspot.com/
Rhett Valino Pascual: http://karinderia.blogspot.com/
Eileen Tabios: http://winepoetics.blogspot.com/
Benito Vergara, Jr. : http://www.thewilyfilipino.com/blog/

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A NORMAL LIFE IN FRENCH!

Congratulations to Reine Arcache Melvin whose book A Normal Life has just been translated into a French edition. Here's her French publisher's press release:

L'Esprit des Peninsules, Paris Announcement

Une Vie Normale (A Normal Life)
By Reine Arcache Melvin

Short stories
Translated from the English (Philippines) by Nathalie Cunnington

L'Esprit des Peninsules is pleased to announce the publication of “Une Vie Normale” (French edition) by Reine Arcache Melvin. The subject of these stories is desire -– for a lover, for a homeland, for the possibility of a normal life. Many of these tales take place in the Philippines during the time of coups d'etat and revolution, but the men and women of “Une Vie Normale” are caught in their own private dramas: the end of a marriage, the beginning of a love affair, the thrall of eroticism. “A Normal Life” was originally published by Ateneo de Manila University's Office of Research and Publications in the Philippines, where it won a National Book Award for fiction in 2000.

“Une Vie Normale” is available at the FNAC and bookstores throughout France, and online at www.amazon.fr and www.fnac.com .

Book launch: June 20 (Friday), 7: 00 p.m.
Musee de la Halle St. Pierre, 2 rue Ronsard, 75018 Paris (Metro: Anvers)

Reviews in the French press:

Le Canard Enchaine (April 30, 2003)
“The Wings of the Rabbit”
The central characters of these stories are the women of Manila, generally in exile during the Marcos dictatorship. A dissident's family finds itself in San Francisco when the father is the target of an assassination attempt. Lisa is shattered, while her sister Marilen assures her that the Philippines' best psychics are being called on to save him and that, as soon as they return to their country, she will marry Miguel, whose family has prospered under the dictatorship… In the United States, “no one came to the wake”, so as not to be seen in the company of the exile's family. Lisa returns to Manila; her sister gives a big party where people shake hands with government ministers who signed their order of exile. The climate changes, but not Lisa : “Always there had been this sense of two selves: the body , which strangers desired, and then, darting behind it, the frightened rabbit's eyes.”

These bittersweet stories are bathed in violence and female eroticism, described with the immodesty of innocence. This young man who remains forever mysterious, encountered during a cruise in the southern seas : “I imagined him sliding a shirt over a chest as smooth and fair as that neck.” “Caressed by him, I caressed like him, and at some point I caressed myself for him.” Is this not worthy of the Song of Songs?

Another female character, another rabbit story. Returning from New York, a woman notices an utterly appetizing young man on the airplane. She returns home, to Paris, perhaps, “pours oil, vinegar and peppercorns into an earthenware bowl and turns the rabbit pieces over in the mixture, pressing her fingers into the cold flesh. Tonight, she intends to lead a new man to her bed, and it has to be done with rabbits.” It will be the young man who runs off like a rabbit, like all the others in this collection, where the heroines, moreover, dislike their role as mothers, which is burdened with too many troubles, usually sordid and macho. She will leave the immature young man of the airplane, “the way she abandoned the rabbits she had wanted so badly [when she was a little girl in Manila], and for the same reason : neither had the strength to defend itself, and she could not save their lives for them.”

To read between the lines of the author: an immeasurable and so tender pain, from a land where even doves no longer fly toward the shoulders of dictators.
--Dominique Durand

Libération (April 10, 2003)
“Her Father's Keeper”

Six stories on the misfortunes of desire, by the Philippine writer Reine Arcache Melvin.

In the last story of this collection, where no life is experienced as normal (hence the title), a young mother asks herself how she will kill her baby. Throw it out the window, perhaps, from the heights of the eighth floor, if the window opens. What misery ravages the poor girl? Not social misery. Whether they live in Manila or in exile, the characters of Reine Arcache Melvin are well off. Their misfortune is interior – a melancholy, the chilling sentiment of strangeness, the fear that surges from the depths of being, as from the night of time.

The young mother does not want “this pulsing inside her that was not her,” she does not want to be a “woman turned cow” whose husband's family expects a son, this family that is powerful and hated: “A third of the country's ruling elite was related by blood or marriage to the infant she held in her arms.” History, politics and power are omnipresent in these stories, where the point of view is, finally, always that of a woman, even if the author tries to let the male partner express himself. In two stories, a woman's father is assassinated by the dictator's men, in a street in San Francisco. Almost always, there is a misalliance with yesterday's enemies, once the winds change and people find themselves on the other side of the revolution.

The first story, “Now That I Am Dead,” distributes the roles for the rest of the book: the woman, who returns under different names and ages, is her father's keeper. She is sensitive to men's bodies, to the texture of their skin, but her sensuality is a double-edged sword and she is wounded by it -- so much so that the enemy is not necessarily from the other political or historical camp. The enemy merges into the lover; the landscape of the encounter is paradisiacal, delicately painted with the colors and smells of Manila. “Always there had been this sense of two selves: the body , which strangers desired, and then, darting behind it, the frightened rabbit's eyes.”

The poor rabbit makes a striking reappearance in the second text -- “A Normal Life,” the title story. The young woman has grown older; she is in Paris with an 8-year-old daughter, with whom she tries to exercise the alienating occupation of mother, until this occupation in reality liberates her, re-centers her. She remembers a scene from her childhood: She had a pregnant rabbit, the babies were born, and a chicken ate them. So the woman will abandon the young man -– so charming, so bizarre -– who claims he wants to stay beside her -- the way she abandoned the rabbits to their fate: “Neither had the strength to defend itself, and she could not save their lives for them.”
--Claire Devarrieux

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BABAYLAN EMBEDDED/EMBODIED IN MANY LIBRARIES!

Remember to ask bookstores and libraries to stock Filipino authors. Nick Carbo recently sent information on the presence of Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina-American Writers in numerous libraries across the U.S.; heres the list! Babaylan was edited by Nick and Eileen:

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SI INSTITUTE OF SE ASIAN STUDIES SIIAS Record for Item: "Babaylan : /
an anthology..." Babaylan :
an anthology of Filipina and Filipina American
writers /

Nick Carbó; Eileen Tabios
2000 1st ed. English Book xxii, 336 p. ; 23 cm.
San Francisco : Aunt Lute Books, ISBN: 1879960591 (pbk.)

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Title: Babaylan :
an anthology of Filipina and Filipina American
writers /
Author(s): Carbó, Nick,; 1964- ; Tabios, Eileen.
Publication: San Francisco : Aunt Lute Books,
Edition: 1st ed.
Year: 2000
Description: xxii, 336 p. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Standard No: ISBN: 1879960591 (pbk.); LCCN:
00-35525
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Philippine literature (English) -- Women authors.
American literature -- Filipino American authors.
Filipino American women -- Literary collections.
Women -- Philippines -- Literary collections.
Filipino Americans -- Literary collections.
American literature -- Women authors.
Geographic: Philippines -- Literary collections.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. 326-331).
Class Descriptors: LC: PR9550.5; Dewey: 820.8/09287/09599
Responsibility: co-edited by Nick Carbó and Eileen Tabios.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20000314
Update: 20010520
Accession No: OCLC: 43706853
Database: WorldCat
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