Categories for Bennu's Library
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Eileen R. Tabios' Author Copies
Autobiographies, Biographies, Memoirs
Diaries, Journals, Correspondences
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Selected Book Acquisition Notes As the Library Grows:
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READINGS
Friday, October 2, 2026
AUTHOR COPIES
FICTION
Behind The Blue Canvas, 2004
[Novel Chatelaine, 2009]
SILK EGG: Collected Novels 2009-2009, 2011
What Counts, 2020
PAGPAG: The Dictator’s Aftermath in the Diaspora, 2020
DOVELION: A Fairy Tale for Our Times, 2021
Simmering: a novella-in-prose-poems, 2022
Getting to One, flash fictions with art by harry k stammer, 2023
The Balikbayan Artist, 2024
The Erotic Space Around Art Objects, 2026
Tata Efren's Forever Laughter (with Jeannie E. Celestial & Mel Vera Cruz), 2026
POETRY
After The Egyptians Determined The Shape of the World Is A Circle, 1996
Beyond Life Sentences, 1998
[The Empty Flagpole (CD with guest artist Mei-mei Berssenbrugge), 2000]
Ecstatic Mutations (with short stories and essays), 2001
Reproductions of The Empty Flagpole, 2002
[Enheduanna in the 21st Century, 2002]
[There, Where the Pages Would End, 2003]
Menage a Trois With the 21st Century, 2004
Crucial Bliss Epilogues, 2004
The Estrus Gaze(s), 2005
[Songs of the Colon, 2005]
Post Bling Bling, 2005
I Take Thee, English, For My Beloved, 2005
The Secret Lives of Punctuations, Vol. I, 2006
Dredging for Atlantis, 2006
[It’s Curtains, 2006]
SILENCES: The Autobiography of Loss, 2007
[The Singer and Others: Flamenco Hay(na)ku, 2007]
The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes: Our Autobiography, 2007
Nota Bene Eiswein, 2009
Footnotes to Algebra: Uncollected Poems 1995-2009, 2009
[On A Pyre: An Ars Poetica, 2010]
[Roman Holiday, 2010]
[Hay(na)ku for Haiti, 2010]
THE THORN ROSARY: Selected Prose Poems and New 1998-2010, 2010
the relational elations of ORPHANED ALGEBRA (with j/j hastain), 2012
5 Shades of Gray, 2012
THE AWAKENING: A Long Poem Triptych & A Poetics Fragment, 2013
147 Million Orphans (MMXI-MML), 2014
[44 RESURRECTIONS, 2014]
SUN STIGMATA (Sculpture Poems), 2014
I Forgot Light Burns, 2015
[Duende in the Alleys, 2015]
INVENT(ST)ORY: Selected Catalog Poems & New (1996-2015), 2015
The Connoisseur of Alleys, 2016
[The Gilded Age of Kickstarters, 2016]
[Excavating the Filipino in Me, 2016]
I Forgot Ars Poetica, 2016
AMNESIA: Somebody’s Memoir, 2016
THE OPPOSITE OF CLAUSTROPHOBIA: Prime’s Anti-Autobiography, 2017
[Post-Ecstasy Mutations, 2017]
[On Green Lawn, The Scent of White, 2017]
To Be An Empire Is To Burn, 2017
If They Hadn’t Worn White Hoods … (with John Bloomberg-Rissman), 2017
[What Shivering Monks Comprehend, 2017]
YOUR FATHER IS BALD: Selected Hay(na)ku Poems, 2017
IMMIGRANT: Hay(na)ku & Other Poems In A New Land, 2017
Comprehending Mortality (with John Bloomberg-Rissman), 2017
[Big City Cante Intermedio, 2017]
WINTER ON WALL STREET: A Novella-in-Verse, 2017
Making National Poetry Month Great Again, 2017
MANHATTAN: An Archaeology, 2017
Love In A Time of Belligerence, 2017
MURDER DEATH RESURRECTION: A Poetry Generator, 2018
TANKA, Vol. I, 2018
HIRAETH: Tercets From The Last Archipelago, 2018
One, Two, Three: Selected Hay(na)ku Poems (Trans. Rebeka Lembo), 2018
THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL: Selected Visual Poetry 2001-2019, 2019
The In(ter)vention of the Hay(na)ku: Selected Tercets 1996-2019, 2019 & 2021
Witness in the Convex Mirror, 2019
Evocare: Selected Tankas (with Ayo Gutierrez and Bianca Nagac), 2019
[We Are It, 2020]
Inculpatory Evidence: The Covid-19 Poems, 2020
Political Love, 2021
La Vie érotique de l’art, une séance avec William Carlos Williams (Trad. de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Samuel Rochery), 2021
PRISES (Trad. de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Fanny Garin), 2022
Because I Love You, I Become War, 2023
Drawing the Six Directions, 2024
Engkanto in the Diaspora, 2025
PROSE COLLECTIONS
Black Lightning: Poetry-In-Progress (poetry essays/interviews), 1998
My Romance (art essays with poems), 2002
The Blind Chatelaine’s Keys (biography with haybun), 2008
AGAINST MISANTHROPY: A Life in Poetry (2015-1995), 2015
#EileenWritesNovel, 2017
Tiny Stickers: A Covid-19 Autobiography, 2020
THE INVENTOR: A Poet’s Transcolonial Autobiography, 2023
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Books within brackets are not (yet) in the library. They are not in library mostly for two reasons: they are e-publications or their print copies were taken by the 2020 Glass Fire.
SELECTED BOOK ACQUISITION NOTES (October 1, 2026-Present)
Under my hashtag eileenreadsbooks on Facebook, I occasionally place Notes to my acquisitions as the library progresses. Here are selections in reverse chronological order from January 1, 2024 which is when I began inputting them on this blog. To see older book acquisition Notes, go to Facebook and look up the hashtag. Acquisitions from July-September 2026 are HERE; April-June 2026 are HERE; January-March 2026 are HERE; October-December 2025 are HERE; July-September 2025 are HERE; April-June 2025 are HERE, Jan.-March 2025 are HERE, October-December 2024 are HERE, July-September 2024 are HERE, April-June 2024 are HERE, Jan.-March 2024 are HERE.
10/2/26
My library's recent acquisitions include two very significant books for two different direct readerships though there can be—and should be—overlap in audience.
David Skipton’s THE CLAIMS GAME should be read by anyone who has insurance. Its subtitle explains its importance: “The Tricks and Deceptive Tactics Insurance Companies use to Underpay or Deny Your Claim,” a topic that’s unfortunately close to my heart. Its author is a former claims adjuster who thus knows of what he speaks. Sadly, insurance deception is not just a cause for anger at its injustice, but it’s heartbreaking because there is real hurt and pain caused for people who are usually at their most fragile state if they’re in the aftermath of an insurable (often catastrophic) event. This can be such a cruel world...
Another significant book is George Myers Jr.’s study that would be relevant to the literary world: WILD FORMS whose subtitle explains it as “A Field Guide to Formally Inventive Literature Since 2000.” In fact, being reminded of M. NourbeSe Philip’s huge achievement, ZONG!, made me pause to consider expanding my novel-in-progress GENESIS with a more extensive look at desaparecidos—I mention this because good books often inspire new works.
Because October is Filipino American History Month, I also note that WILD FORMS deserves appreciation for including books by six Filipino (including mixed race Filipino) poets and writers who take innovative and experimental approaches to poem-making and writing: Lynda Barry, Rob Macaisa Colgate, Monica Ong, Barbara Jane Reyes, Eileen R. Tabios, and Ronaldo V. Wilson. This is notable since it seems like only yesterday when Nick Carbo was noting in PINOY POETICS how most anthologies and books ignore Filipino contributions. Anyway, Salamat to George Myers Jr., himself a poet, book critic and someone who “over four decades, [has] handled this culture’s objects in shops and museums, libraries, trade shows and homes.” I’m grateful he deployed his chops to include the Filipino accent in a company that includes notables like Anne Carson, Claudia Rankine, Ben Marcus, Harryette Mullen, Mark Z. Danielewski, Barbara Guest, Ron Silliman, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge,, Christian Hawkey, Han Kang, Eleni Sikelianos, John Ashbery, Roberto Bolano, among others.
All this is not to say the other recently acquired books aren’t important in their own way. I’m particularly grateful for receiving my author’s copy of SANTELMO 14 from publisher San Anselmo Publications and the issue editor and scholar-historian Charles Samuya Veric. This journal is an important addition to the Martial Law-related literature of the Philippines.
With my library’s target of 15,516 books (a number that replicates the number of books lost to a wildfire), that’s 2,113 books down, 13,403 books to go! Good Afternoon!
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