Poetry Sampler

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For those who love Filipino Poetry

Gacha Press is a non-profit poetry publisher that aims to promote and encourage the reading and appreication of contemporary poetry. Through the discovery, nurturing, and publication of both emerging and established poets with exceptional literary skills, Gacha Press strives to deliver top-notch literature to the general audience. This endeavor is sustained by the revenue generated from book sales as well as private contributions..

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Tilt Cards by Isabela Banzon

Here are objects in search of a subject through a lenticular view, as though giving the moment a slight wiggle or a sudden wink. Written in verse paragraphs, Tilt Cards asks if such moments are accretions of disparate fragments of experience that acquire larger meaning in afterthought after afterhtought. From the author of the prizewinning poetry collection Maybe Something.

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Decroux Men by Aldus Santos

Part pre-show scat, part pre-guillotine prayer. Half-logorrhea, half-rhapsody. When you leaf through Decroux Men, you leaf through improbable back stories to great works of art: from Michael Jackson’s moonwalking to John Coltrane’s "A Love Supreme"; from Francisco Tárrega’s “Recuerdos de la Alhambra” to a waitress giving cocktails Gertrude Stein-inspired names.The poems in this brief collection are attempts, in effect, to puncture holes through that very impenetrability.work well responsively as well!

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Harinawa ni Jaime Jesus Uy Borlagdan

Ang "Harinawa" ay piling mga tulang naisulat sa loob ng dalawampung taon pakatapos mailabas ang "Libro ng Pobya," ang unang aklat ng makata. Sa munting koleksiyon na ito ikinuyom ang dambuhalang mga usaping tumutukoy sa ating nakakabagabag na karanasan ng pagkakalagak bilang isang kaluluwang eternal sa maselang katawang tiyak na ang katapusan.

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Happily Ever Ek-ek by Paolo Manalo

In this new poetry collection, Paolo Manalo explores the themes of love and satisfying endings with the same linguistic inventiveness of his previous work, "Jolography". Some of these poems are obsessions with lovers, kisses, and flowers; and the repetition of lines from movies, songs, and video games. It seeks closure through formal skill, and when there is none, comfort in the ek-ek of the imagination.

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Chapbook Series 1

Featuring Michael Balili's Velocirupture and Paolo Manalo's E is for Epal. Very limited copies remain.

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