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Barbara Jane Reyes's Reviews

Reviews of Barbara’s Work

Diwata
Mar.01.2011
Published by Coal Hill Review
A Diwata, in Philippine culture, is a guardian spirit of nature similar to a nymph or elf who resides in large trees and is capable of delivering both fortune and misfortune. They...
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Published by Rain Taxi
Barbara Jane Reyes's second book, Poeta en San Francisco, explores the translatable and untranslatable collisions of writing self and culture. We immediately become bound to the...
Gravities of Center
Published by MELUS (Multi Ethnic Literature in the US) Journal
Barbara J. Pulmano Reyes's debut book of poetry, Gravities of Center, opens with an invocation echoing with the loss and longing of exile: "Found" asks the muse to...
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Published by Zoland Poetry
“I have said “A Poet in New York” when I ought to have said “New York in a Poet,” Lorca said of his 1932 volume, and this inside-out,...