Hai[Na]Ku and Other Poems

By AA Patawaran

An exciting collection of poetry inspired by life's most engrossing themes such as love and pain, solitude and reflection, arrivals and departures, and the tenuous threads that make up everyday life, from AA Patawaran, Manila Bulletin Lifestyle editor and bestselling author of Write Here Write Now.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 14, 2017
• ISBN: 9789712733178

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Write me a poem

Choose words that rhyme with your heartbeat

That take you home from here

Away from this moment

And read it to me not with your lips

But from deep in your soul

Hai(na)ku and Other Poems

by AA Patawaran

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Early praise for

Hai[Na]Ku

and other poems

By AA Patawaran

Your poems… are lucid, lyrical, easy to ingest. Mabuhay ka!

—F. Sionil Jose, National Artist for Literature

AA Patawaran’s poetry recalls an alphabet of longing; the joy of discovering form and delving into the prescience of passion.

—Marc Nair, spoken word artist, poet

From the title itself and through each of the book’s poems, travel with the longing-lined lingering of a voice that knows both too much and not enough. Rhyme and reason tucked in the half-smirk of a Manila boy, Hai[na]ku is at once a cheeky and solemn exploration of some of today’s most pined over whys and wherefores. A must-have for every embattled Filipino.

—Sarah Meier, writer, journalist, editor

AA’s words reflect an insatiable thirst for transcendence, demystifying a world enshrouded with nostalgia, magic, and deep abandonment. A carnal search along the vein of the author’s most intimate sensitivity, strange, intoxicating, paradoxical, and at times breathstopping. A must-read for the yearning artist in everyone.

—Toff de Venecia, artist, theater director

Funny and wise thoughts from a well-traveled and sophisticated man who shows us that poetry can be the simple truths of our everyday life. Who would have ever thought that movie titles from Genghis Khan to Who Framed Roger Rabbit and even Kakabakaba Ka Ba? could be lyrical poetry? Only AA can capture the multifaceted relationship between film and poetry.

—Rica Arevalo, filmmaker

Hai[na]ku is a brilliant, un-self-conscious collection that explores poetry with a fresh sense of wonder. This exploration presents a playful collection full of different poetic styles from rhyming verses and prose poems to even a few ballads. The works bounce back and forth from the casual to the sophisticated, from the whimsical to the lyrical but they are always grounded in their confidence and by being uniquely personal.

—Wanggo Gallaga, poet, writer, screenwriter

AA is a tour guide for the senses. He ushers us to poetry we all are within.

—Kooky Tuason, spoken word artist

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