Amigo Warfare, Poems by Eric Gamalinda
Eric
Gamalinda’s Amigo Warfare is
a stunning meditation on identity and the ways we connect with ourselves,
with each other, and with the world:
Grief is a nation of everyone,
a country without borders.
Gamalinda’s voice soars and swoops through dazzling, heartbreaking language, offering comfort amid the grief we all share. In Gamalinda’s poems, we are all alone, together.
Sample Poems by Eric Gamalinda
“Sometimes I think we do everything in code, and poetry is the decoder ring, the anti-code. I felt this especially when I read Eric Gamalinda. His wistful, fierce, enthralled voice seems to speak the true language, the sotto voce language we can’t hear in our loud world of binary and mutually destructive opposites. Gamalinda is a marvelous poet, and Amigo Warfare is a passport to his elusive, beautiful, unknowable, and suddenly familiar kingdom.”—D. Nurkse
Eric Gamalinda was born and raised in Manila, the Philippines, and has been residing in New York City since 1994. He has received the Asian American Literary Award for his previous collection of poetry, Zero Gravity (Alice James Books, 1999), as well as a fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
ISBN: 978-1933456669, 88 pages, $17.00
Cover Image: No sabía que ella estaba pensando en, 2004; copyright: Luis Gonzáles Palma; courtesy Robert Mann Gallery, New York