NOT EVEN DOGS by ERNESTO PRIEGO
LENY M. STROBEL ReviewsNOT EVEN DOGS by Ernesto Priego
(Meritage Press, 2006)
For Ernesto Priego's Not Even Dogs
You
Said: Poetry
Is like Music
But
Priego's jainaku
Is like Dance
The Body speaks
In these
Poems
I
Found myself
Following the moves
Breathe,
Flow, Pause,
Piroutte, Undulate, Gyrate
Try
Different rhythm
For another meaning
Haynaku
As Dancing
Is Body speaking
Can
Your Body
Speak for you?
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Thank you, Ernesto, for your poetry. The poems remind me a lot of Eric Gamalinda's (before I noticed that he's blurbed this). I was surprised by the bodily resonances...maybe it takes a large dose of single-author haynakus to move my (fat) body!
*****
Leny M. Strobel does not recognize the binary of *Poetry Or Scholarship*. Her newest book is A Book Of Her Own: Words and Images to Honor the Babaylan (T'boli Books, 2006).
posted by na @ 11:50 PM
3 Comments:
Another view is offered by Allen Bramhall in GR #3 at:
http://galatearesurrection3.blogspot.com/2006/08/not-even-dogs-by-ernesto-priego.html
Another view is presented by Mario E. Mireles in GR #5 at:
http://galatearesurrection5.blogspot.com/2007/02/not-even-dogs-by-ernesto-priego-plus.html
Another view is offered by John Bloomberg-Rissman in GR #7 at:
http://galatearesurrection7.blogspot.com/2007/08/two-publications-by-ernesto-priego.html
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