Arvin Abejo Mangohig telescopes his poetic vision—and diction—to one of the darkest moments of Philippine history and, through a lyricism stunning for its clear-eyed intensity and restraint, offers us fresh and urgent reckonings of stories under the threat of being eroded by fake news and historical revisionism.
—Carlomar Arcangel Daoana

"Like an archaeologist digging through bleached bones just barely on the surface of the present, he sheds light on the obscured realities of political repression, incarceration, and torture where even those who survive become “bodies / … collections of near-misses and escapes, and between them / The times we find no barbed wire between our bloodied lips.”
—Vicente L. Rafael