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[Anny Ballardini]

OTOLITHS ANNOUNCEMENT
For more info (including review copies): Mark Young at mhcyoung at gmail.com

DREDGING FOR ATLANTIS
Poetry by Eileen Tabios
ISBN-13: 978-0-9775-6044-8
Release date: November 2006
Price: $U.S.14.95 from SPD & Amazon.com; $10.00 from Lulu.com

Distributors:
Small Press Distribution (SPD) (http://spdbooks.org)
Amazon.com
Lulu.com (http://www.lulu.com/content/470167 )

Otoliths (Rockhampton, Australia) is pleased to announce the release of
Eileen Tabios' latest poetry collection, DREDGING FOR ATLANTIS. (Book Page
available at http://dredgingforatlantis.blogspot.com )

EILEEN TABIOS' publications includes 14 poetry collections, an art essay
collection, a poetry essay/interview anthology, and a short story book. DREDGING
FOR ATLANTIS, her 11th print poetry collection, extends a unique body of work
for melding ekphrasis with transcolonialism. Here, she introduces her
translation of the painterly technique of scumbling to create poems from other poets'
words. From other writers' texts, she also extracts sequences of the
hay(na)ku, a poetic form she inaugurated on June 12, 2003 to mark the 105th
Anniversary of Philippines' Independence Day from Spain, its three-century colonizer.

In DREDGING FOR ATLANTIS, the author addresses loss: a lost country, lost
memories, lost words, and lost dreams. But hope remains, and serves as the
impetus for new poems.

Recipient of the Philippines' Manila Critics Circle National Book Award for
Poetry, Ms Tabios also edited or co-edited five books of poetry, fiction and
essays released in the United States. Her poetry and editing projects have
received numerous awards including the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles National
Literary Award, The Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize, the Gustavus Meyers Outstanding Book
Award in the Advancement of Human Rights, Foreword Magazine Anthology of the
Year Award, Poet Magazine's Iva Mary Williams Poetry Award, Judds Hill's Annual
Poetry Prize and the Philippine American Writers & Artists' Catalagan Award;
recognition from the Academy of American Poets, the Asian Pacific Association
of Librarians and the PEN-Open Book Committee; as well as grants from the
Witter Bynner Foundation, National Endowment of the Arts, the New York State
Council on the Humanities, the California Council for the Humanities, and the New
York City Downtown Cultural Council.

Ms Tabios performs the poetics blog, "The Blind Chatelaine's Poker Poetics"
(angelicpoker.blogspot.com) and edits the journal GALATEA RESURRECTS: A Poetry
Engagement while steering Meritage Press She is the Poet Laureate for Dutch
Henry Winery in St. Helena, CA where, as a budding vintner, she is arduously
and long-sufferingly researching the poetry of wine.

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Otoliths, based in Rockhampton, on the Tropic of Capricorn in Australia. is
an independent publisher of poetry in its literary and visual forms --
separately & in combination -- from around the world that takes advantage of the
opportunities offered by the web and print on demand publishing to bring out both
books & the journal it is named after.

It's editor is Mark Young, a poet whose work has been appearing both in print
& online for nearly 50 years.

For more information on Otoliths' publications, please go to
http://www.lulu.com/l_m_young



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Anny Ballardini
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! 
Friedrich Nietzsche 
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