Marlon Hacla

Dec 20, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Tobias Carroll |Adam Dalva |Marlon Hacla |Patricia C Melo |Patrícia Campo Melo

From Ugly Duckling Presse | Glossolalia by Marlon Hacla, translated from the Filipino by Kristine Ong Muslim | Poetry | 200 pages | ISBN 9781946604019 | US$20.00 What the publisher says: “Feverish from the engrossing revelatory arcs of the uncanny, Glossolalia is a mind-bending foray into the twisted underlying logic of material reality and a rip-roaring romp through Philippine urban legends, psychogeography, and the uncomfortable, often seedy aspects of music, cinema, and art.” What Sakinah...

Dec 6, 2023 | lithub.com | Marlon Hacla

“You see, for me art’s not one of life’s ornaments, [a] rococo relaxation to be greeted affably after a day of hard work; I’m inverted on this: for me it’s my very breath, the one thing necessary, and all else is excretion and a latrine.” –Arno Schmidt, Nobodaddy’s Children “The poet is not true to his word if he doesn’t change the names of things.” –Nicanor Parra, “Changes of Name” * For both initiated and uninitiated readers of Marlon Hacla’s poetry, there are several ways to approach this...