VERSES TYPHOON YOLANDA: A Storm of
Filipino Poets
Editor: Eileen R. Tabios
ISBN: 978-0-9826493-6-7
Retail Price: $20 for print book
Publisher: Meritage Press
(San Francisco & St. Helena, CA)
For more information:
MeritagePress@aol.com
Meritage Press is pleased to
announce the forthcoming release of a fundraising anthology for the survivors
of Super Typhoon Yolanda. We expect that
VERSES TYPHOON YOLANDA will be
available for orders in the March/April timeframe. Meanwhile, Meritage Press would like to
sponsor a Pre-Publication Special that will offer the book at a lower price
than after the book’s release.
For this Pre-Publication
Special good through March 31, 2014, send $19 per book via a check made out to
“Meritage Press” to
Eileen Tabios
P.O. Box 361
St. Helena, CA 94574
You can order as many books
as you wish. Unfortunately, this Special
is only available to addresses within the United States as Meritage Press will
pick up shipping/handling costs (usually a $4-$6 value), as well as California
tax for California recipients.
The books will be mailed to
recipients once the book is released.
All profits will be donated for Yolanda relief.
While the book had a
fundraising versus purely literary impetus, the contributions of 133 poets also
created a book that’s useful for highlighting the talents of contemporary
Filipino poets from around the world.
Here are some “Advance Words” from poet-scholar-critic-editor Susan M.
Schultz:
VERSES TYPHOON YOLANDA: A Storm of Filipino Poets:
This is a book about a destructive typhoon named Yolanda, or Haiyan, which caused massive damage to the Philippines in November, 2013. This is a sprawling book of poems about family, loss, art, economy, greed, love, grief, theft, militarism, colonialism, typhoon tourism, deforestation, stray dogs, survivors, rubble, donations, propaganda, looting, journalists, dead children, helicopters, rain, disembowelment, black bags, conquerors, catastrophe, “the republic of the drowned” (Luisa A. Igloria). This is a book in English, Filipino, Cebuano, Waray, Hiligaynon, Bisaya. This is a book by poets who teach, poets who study, a poet who drives a tricycle for a living, poets who work for NGOs, poets who are school children. This is a book by 133 Filipino poets who live in the Philippines, the United States, Britain, the Netherlands, South Africa, elsewhere. What is diaspora but the aftermath of storm? All profits from this book will be donated to relief organizations. “Aid is art,” writes Simeon Dumdum, Jr. Now art will aid survivors of the storm.
—Susan M. Schultz, poet and editor of Tinfish
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MeritagePress@aol.com
