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.
