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MOST RECENT REVIEWS:

YELLOW FIELD

Rife with the stuff of Language Poetry, disseminated here in the investigatory practices of a secular grammarian, Tabios takes for her organizing principle the diacritically punctual gesture....Supporting such columnar effects rids us of the indices of affectation; serials, editorial drafts, and asides open and flex here in the full catalog of our representational enquiring.

Entire Review at http://goodchatty.blogspot.com/2011/03/edric-mesmer-reviews-secret-lives-of.html


FEMINIST REVIEW:

[Tabios] is offering another possibility beyond narrative and the lyric in poetry.

Entire Review at http://feministreview.blogspot.com/2007/03/secret-lives-of-punctuations-vol-i.html


JACKET:

In Derridean deconstruction, the parergon or periphery often becomes the center, the parenthesis the main focus, and in the work of poets like David Shapiro, original and translation swap places. Tabios in her “Notes” demonstrates how her brief “Parentheticals” are the product of a double displacement... A critique of presumptions of transparent referentiality and unproblematic narrative—coupled with the aesthetic pleasure of stretching the imagination with formal innovations—has been an important feature of all of Tabios’s poetry.

Entire Review at http://jacketmagazine.com/31/fink-tabios.html


PHILIPPINE NEWS:

If we were to coalesce the totality of Tabios’s poems into a single commentary, we would probably be compelled to step beyond the thematic content of her works and recognize that they hang on the perspective of the noble individual who lives experientially in the world and who meditates spiritually above it. With all the subtlety of a kamikaze pilot, Tabios explains that “I, robustly believing in subjectivity, fling myself naked, hair matted and blood rushing into the poetry-writing.”

Entire Review in prior post and at: http://www.philippinenews.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=231032ee7d5fed6e0d8bc9914260819d