All My Distances Point to Home by King Llanza
All My Distances Point to Home by King Llanza
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Copyright 2022
“All My Distances Point to Home” is an examination of what intimacy is like when not in close proximity, as observed in personal relationships with people and, most especially, with the natural world. This volume of queer ecopoetry is poetry for our time, and it reminds us of our connections to the Earth and the intricate ties we have with humanity and with flora and fauna.
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
"All My Distances Point to Home" is an astonishing expression of queer Filipino ecopoetry. Through a diverse assemblage of forms, King Llanza explores the intimate and erotic porousness between humans, animals, and the environment. There is an earthy, bodily, and watery lyricism in these pages. There is a deep hunger to transform our senses into “a state of ceremony and unison.”
—Craig Santos Perez
Elemental and urban worlds, weather as well as sex all intersect in these poems that pulse with unabashed longing and surprising humour, fissuring from desire thwarted, sublimated and transmitted through poignant metaphor and vulnerable, tender and hard-won truths.
—Cyril Wong
In "All My Distances Point to Home," King Llanza offers the natural world as the mirror to the self—or is it the self that is the world refracted into grief, or longing or that allegory of relationality, where no easy optimism, no convenient metaphor cleaves cleanly that which sunders us from all that we live with. These poems are unafraid to call a gash, a gash and for that they deserve both our awe and our trust. What a debut this is!
—Lawrence Lacambra Ypil
His verses, a slice in the soul—provokes my inner cosmos. He is always there in the middle of the afterthoughts wearing sunglasses, staring at glares, waiting for the moon to finally speak. His longing is that of a firefly—as he waits patiently, there, in the middle of the vast Pacific—a small island with one coconut tree.
—Marco Antonio Rodas
️ ABOUT THE POET
King Llanza (he/they) is from Lucena, Quezon. He was a finalist for the 2021 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize. His poems have appeared in several local and international publications, both online and in print. King holds an MSc in Environmental Science and Ecosystem Management. He is currently based in Manila and works for a sustainability communications agency. This is his first book.
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- Author and Publisher: King Llanza, UST Publishing House 2022
- Condition and Binding: New /
- Language: English
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