A collection of linked essays and poems concerned with the vitality of art and writing in the wake of grief.
At the intersections of poetry, sonic/ visual text, nonfiction, and arts writing, Traceable Relation portrays a writer’s practice within a lineage of aesthetic and practical sensibilities conveyed in the personal effects of her late father and the concrete tasks of communal mourning. In an ongoing practice of “speaking nearby” various works of film, sound installation and pop music, innovative, contemporary writing emerges from diasporic arts of memory and survivance.
Book excerpts previously published and forthcoming
Composition commissioned for Triple Canopy’s Live Feed 2.
W9NCD in Bæst 10, January 2025
from Traceable Relation [That one Ani DiFranco song] in 9 Poems [pdf]
from Dread Poem in Tripwire [pdf]
A modified squat [01:14:20]; Germinal [01:27:50] in Bone Bouquet [pdf]
Traceable Relation, Paradiso Reading Series broadside [pdf] and in A Perfect Vacuum [pdf]
Composition II (text + visual poem after Christina Quisumbing Ramilo’s Composition] in Ursula, Issue 8 [pdf]
ROOM TONE, Belladonna Chaplet #297
Heavenly Hibiscus [01:04:00]; Fire [00:56:42] in Harp & Altar [pdf 1, 2]
Voice Noise: a multichannel English (Philippines)-Filipino language Google Doc speech-to-text transcription of recorded calls + training videos, a collaboration with Jesse Chun, in Juf [pdf]
From “Twelve Poets,” Ursula Magazine.