Luis H. Francia. Tattered Boat. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 2014. 101 pages.

Excerpt: Tattered Boat is both a collection of poems and a book about what poetry should be: buoyant words directed by sharp voices of unexpected confessions, defiance, and transformations. The title of the collection indicates the feeling of being tossed—at once helplessly and dexterously—in the wa...

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