Inventor: A Poet's Transcolonial Autobiography

Overview

Chapter One "On Becoming a Poet" Series

Reviews

“Tabios is an icon of how to live an artistic, ethical, beautiful life with poetry, but not necessarily words, at its center.” —Grace Talusan, author of The Body Papers

"Read The Inventor and try some of its approaches; you’ll get it, and you’ll want to become a 'Transcolonial' inventor too."—T.C. Marshall, The Halo-Halo Review

 

Author Biography

Eileen R. Tabios has released over 70 collections of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction prose. Recent releases include the novel The Balikbayan Artist; a poetry collection Because I Love You, I Become War; and an autobiography, The Inventor. Other recent books include a first novel DoveLion: A Fairy Tale for Our Times which was in translated by Danton Remoto into Filipino as KalapatingLeon. Inventor of the hay(na)ku, a 21st century diasporic poetic form, she has seen her writing and editing works receive recognition through awards, grants and residencies. More information is at http://eileenrtabios.com