SUDDEN ASIAN PREPPER
—March 2020
A dozen jars
of macapuno
preserves,
20 bags of
dried mango
jerkies,
dye for turning
hair blonde,
tape
for double-lidding eyes,
an ankle
sheath,
15 propane cans,
100 MREs,
then
8 large buckets
of vegetable
stews
with 25-year shelf
lives that
become
revived by water
if blisteringly
hot
EILEEN R. TABIOS has released about 60 collections of poetry, fiction, essays, and experimental biographies from publishers in ten countries and cyberspace. Most recently, she released a short story collection, PAGPAG: The Dictator’s Aftermath in the Diaspora and a poetry collection, The In(ter)vention of the Hay(na)ku: Selected Tercets 1996-2019. Inventor of the hay(na)ku, a 21st century diasporic poetic form, she has been translated into ten languages and also edited, co-edited or conceptualized 15 anthologies of poetry, fiction and essays. Her writing and editing works have received recognition through awards, grants and residencies.
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