Assembling Alice
Acclaimed poet, Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta, has outdone herself with this haunting and remarkable work of biofiction that not only straddles genres but cultures, history, and colonization as well. The starting point is a grandmother she never knew but reconstructs as a living-breathing family legend and survivor. In an age of forgetting, Assembling Alice is a powerful act of remembrance and unsentimental but loving awe.
ROBIN HEMLEY, AUTHOR OF BORDERLINE CITIZEN
College Boy
Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta does not so much break the line as dig into it, revealing layers through “…(s)mall assaults/ so smoothly done,// in neither act/ nor iron, but silk.//”
In College Boy, she navigates the discourse of desire with deftness and precision: Always, the poet’s voice— brave, insistent in its lyric compassion— weaves through and splinters the darknesses of history, defies geography, offers “the heart’s precise coordinates” as anchorage.
MIKAEL DE LARA CO, AUTHOR OF WHAT PASSES FOR ANSWERS
