Posthumous: Poems

by Paolo Manalo

This new chapbook collection is a pilgrimage to Han-shan's Cold Mountain in the hermetic terrain and almost zen pandemicon of Paolo Manalo’s elegaic adjustments to a life changed by the COVID-19 outbreak of 2020. Written during the lockdown using a process of "arrival by avoidance", Posthumous are poems that anticipate death, kindness, survival.

32 pages, Unknown Binding

Published April 23, 2024

About the author

Filipino poet who teaches at the College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines-Diliman. Author of poetry collections Happily Ever Ek-ek (2019) and Jolography Retconned (2020), and the poetry pamphlets E is for Epal (2018) and Posthumous (2024). For a time he served as the literary editor of the Philippines Free Press.