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Menage A Trois With the 21st Century
Poems by Eileen R. Tabios
No. of Pages: 128
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 9519198903
Publisher: xPress(ed) (Espoo, Finland)
For more information, email MeritagePress@aol.com

| read review by Michael Wells |
| read review by Murat Nemet
   -Nejat |

xPress(ed) is pleased to announce the release of Eileen R. Tabios' latest poetry collection, MENAGE A TROIS WITH THE 21ST CENTURY ("MAT21"). Her first book to follow on her critically acclaimed Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole (Marsh Hawk, New York, 2002), MAT21 includes two series which resuscitate 21st century lives for Enheduanna (2285-2250 B.C.), the Mesopotamian poet-priestess, and Gabriela Silang (1731-1763), the Philippines' first woman general.

ON MAT21, poet and critic Kevin Killian announces:

"Half diary of dildo desire, half rhapsodic insurgent mediation between art and life, Tabios' book moves from melting prose poetry to a fully lineated, musical demand for action. You, the reader, fully implicated in this intercontinental love triangle, shall find yourself asking, 'Where is the world that is waiting to happen?' The question that haunted Enheduanna and Gabriela plunges out of the book, ferocious, tongue dipped in fire, dragon with sapphire eyes and no conscience."

As of Fall 2004, MAT21 is available through Small Press Distribution (www.spdbooks.org), Meritage Press (www.MeritagePress.com), Amazon.com and, in Finland, through xPress(ed).

MAT21 also will be one of the prizes awarded to winners of OUR OWN VOICE's Global Filipino Literary Award for books published in 2003.

review by Michael Wells | review by Murat Nemet-Nejat

OOV Bookshelf 2004

OCTOBER 2004 FEATURE A Carnivore's Inquiry by Sabina Murray Filipino Women Writers in English: Their Story 1905-2002 by Edna Zapanta-Manlapaz Miracle Fruit: The Poems of Aimee Nezhukumatathil A Child in the Midst of Battle by Evelyn Berg Empie and Stephen H. Mette Sarabihon Volume 2 edited by T. Erestain Missing Mangoes: For Filipinos And Those Who Love Us by Marcelline Santos-Taylor Rosario de Guzman-Lingat, 1924-1997: The Burden of Self and History by Soledad S. Reyes JULY 2004 FEATURE Communities at the Margins: Reflections on Social, Economic, and Environmental Change in the Philippines edited by Hiromitsu Umehara & Germelino M. Bautista Cuentos Filipinos by Jose Montero y Vidal Hinabing Gunita (Woven Memories): Filipinos in the UK, an oral history project Edited by Jamie Tapales Oakes, Carmila Legarda Alcantara, Maria Gonzalez, Candy Quimpo Gourlay, and Ed Maranan Menage a Trois with the 21st Century by Eileen R. Tabios Remembered Songs and Other Stories by Norma Miraflor Uyayi by Chinchin Gutierrez Novemberly by Theo Gonzalves The Art of Harana—Serenades for Guitar by Florante Aguilar Kundiman ng Katipunan by Elynia S. Mabanglo Stephen Y.S. Shey MARCH 2004 FEATURE Dream Jungle by Jessica Hagedorn Marginal Bliss by Carlomar Arcangel Daoana Behind the Blue Canvas by Eileen R. Tabios Ulos: 4 na Dula by Arthur P. Casanova Mga Kuwentong Maranao by Frank G. Rivera Wife or Worker: Asian Women and Migration edited by Nicola Piper and Mina Roces World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability by Amy Chua Smaller and Smaller Circles by Felisa H. Batacan