
BLACK ARCADIA
University of the Philippines Press
Quezon City, Philippines
Trade paperback, 104 pages
ISBN 978-9715428163
Publication Date: March 2017
List Price: $17.50
Cover art by Can Stock Photo Inc./Konrad Bak
Cover design by Victor Dennis Tino Nierva
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BLACK ARCADIA
University of the Philippines Press
Quezon City, Philippines
Trade paperback, 104 pages
ISBN 978-9715428163
Publication Date: March 2017
List Price: $17.50
Cover art by Can Stock Photo Inc./Konrad Bak
Cover design by Victor Dennis Tino Nierva
Notes from BLACK ARCADIA
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Praise for BLACK ARCADIA
Formally adventurous and luminous in its imagery, Kristine Ong Muslim’s Black Arcadia exists in the space between order and chaos, process and product, beauty and destruction. Pristine couplets are juxtaposed with their remnants, the vestiges of a carefully structured world. As the book unfolds, readers will find themselves inhabiting a magnificent wilderness as Muslim writes across and beyond the literary forms that we’re familiar with. She shows us that it is within these radiant apertures, these glowing liminal places, that anything is possible. This is an accomplished, thought-provoking volume from a truly gifted poet.
—Kristina Marie Darling, author of Scorched Altar: Selected Poems and Stories 2007-2014 and many other books
“Black Arcadia presents us with a landscape that is barren and inhospitable, but at the same time wild and lush. These beautifully dark poems move like a sidewinder across the landscape, tangle in the undergrowth, and deliver us into something feral and exhilarating.”
—Kristy Bowen, author of major characters in minor films, girl show, salvage, and many other books
Press and Reviews for BLACK ARCADIA
- Selections from Black Arcadia at Galatea Resurrects
- More excerpts: The Curator, Forth Magazine, New Welsh Review, Thin Noon, Likhaan: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature, Euphony Journal, Mythic Delirium, The Nervous Breakdown, Flapperhouse -"Scarecrow," "The Fugitive," Menacing Hedge, Kitaab
"The images and tropes of Muslim, acclimatized to other re-cyclic writings of similar mythic and fantastic sourcing, may run the risk of becoming overburdened with multiple layers of significations (and here the readers may get lost in the labyrinthine world of speculation); and yet, and yet, it is this beautiful risk, this delicate line running between safety and danger that makes the collection what it is. This sense of portent hovering over her work is modulated by her voice speaking to us with the kind of sureness that makes us trust her."
—Arlene Yandug, Kinaadman Journal