Saturday, June 14, 2008
EILEEN TABIOS' LATEST RECEIVES LOVELY REVIEW!
Eileen Tabios' The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes was recently reviewed by Allen Gaborro in the June 11, 2008 issue of Philippine News. Click on excerpt below for whole review:
Eileen Tabios' The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes was recently reviewed by Allen Gaborro in the June 11, 2008 issue of Philippine News. Click on excerpt below for whole review:
I once had a college classmate who was so exceptional as a student that our professor exclaimed, with tongue-in-cheek, that she could submit a paper with absolutely nothing written on it and still receive the highest grade. I can easily say the same for artist, poet, writer, and publisher Eileen R. Tabios. Of all of her admirable pursuits, it is her poetry that has proven her artistic worth. Her poems are transcendent, expressive, and provocative. What is more is that they are human, all too human to borrow from Nietzsche, in the emotions they evoke and in the wisdom they reflect.
Tabios’s “The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes: Our Autobiography,” is an eloquent testimony to her artistry as a poet and to the sublimity of her verses. It is also rich and extensive in its subject-matter, covering the historical, the spiritual, the social, the literary, and the personal.
