Anchored Angel, The
Worth buying if: You follow Eileen Tabios's experimental poetry and editorial projects.
Skip it if: You prefer conventional narrative fiction or plot-driven books.
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Summary
Anchored Angel, The (1999) presents Eileen Tabios alongside Jose Garcia Villa in a hybrid, artful collection published by Distributed Art Pub Inc.; readers can expect poems and prose that foreground formal play and poetic voice across 255 pages.
Why this book now
For readers tracking late-20th-century experimental poetry and collaborations, this title illuminates work from two distinct poetic perspectives in one volume.
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- You follow Eileen Tabios's experimental poetry and editorial projects.
- You study Jose Garcia Villa's influence on modernist and postmodernist poetics.
- You prefer conventional narrative fiction or plot-driven books.
- You want a mainstream, mass-market poetry collection.
- You only want something with very current references and examples.
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Exact edition: Edition shown · ISBN-13 9781885030283
Worth buying if: You follow Eileen Tabios's experimental poetry and editorial projects.
Skip it if: You prefer conventional narrative fiction or plot-driven books.
Check Amazon for the current price and availability of this exact edition.
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Reading commitment
Light Short sit-downs
At 255 pages, expect a paced reading that rewards attention to lineation, formal experiments, and the interplay between two poetic voices.
What stands out here
This Distributed Art Pub Inc. edition collects the collaborative work of Tabios and Villa, highlighting formal play and editorial curation from 1999.
Best way to approach it
Read slowly and reread short sections to appreciate sentence-level invention, enjambment, and the dialogic quality between the two poets.
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Exact edition: ISBN-13 9781885030283
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