Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta


ASSEMBLING ALICE

Assembling Alice is a portrait of a woman as much as it is a portrait of the times she lived in. Alice Feria came of age during the American commonwealth period in the Philippines, survived both the Japanese occupation and the war in Manila. She did not write of her experiences as much as she spoke of them to those in her inner circle. These are the stories she told and have been told of her.


PRE-ORDER ON GOOD INTENTIONS
PURCHASE ON AMAZON

COLLEGE BOY

College Boy examines the small assaults and transgressions that take place in the plain settings of the playground, the parking lot, the workplace, the route home. The poet discovers how these personal acts have been nourished by a dark constellation of learned tendency and behavior that are at the root of toxic masculinity.


PURCHASE ON SHOPEE
PURCHASE ON LAZADA

HUSH HARBOR

WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIZE, 2016 CARLOS PALANCA MEMORIAL AWARDS


As much an ode to the origins of the title, as it is a nod to the Filipino’s colonial past, the book examines the sacred spaces of marginalized communities—whether they are sympathetic conjectures about the antebellum American South, or the first Filipino diaspora.


Published by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House.

Limited copies available on Good Intentions Books.



BURNING HOUSES & HUSH HARBOR


The Ampersand series gathers two poetry collections by poet Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta.


Burning Houses explores the internal movements of loss while Hush Harbor investigates what acclaimed poet Rachel Rose describes as “the fraught power dynamics between men and women, colonizer and colonized.” Katigbak-Lacuesta also tests the limits of her lyrical verse against the range of emotions that powers them.


Published by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House.


PURCHASE ON LAZADA
PURCHASE ON SHOPEE

EROS REDUX

With Eros Redux, Mookie Katigbak Lacuesta revisits her first poetry collection, The Proxy Eros, which was written as a Master’s thesis and for the New School University, and eventually published as a book in 2008. Eros is both other and poem in Katigbak-Lacuesta’s work—a force seen clearly after the fact. If The Proxy Eros was event, Eros Redux is hindsight reworking and rewriting experience.

Limited copies available on Good Intentions Books.


PURCHASE ON GOOD INTENTIONS

THE PROXY EROS

Katigbak rewards her occasional bruise with a maturity of purpose: the rhetorical lyric as a precise reconnaissance of emotions. Remarkable are her reports on “our sweat as second skin”; “the real that was marvelous”; …


These are poems on love like no other, feigning brutal care when all they really want to do is substitute “The cargo of the unknown” for things we know, such as how the language of love can be so adroit. — Alfred Yuson



Published by Anvil Publishing.




MOOKIE KATIGBAK LACUESTA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 2022.




WEBSITE DESIGN BY SAKURA CREATIVES