Order of the poets : poems in English and Pilipino / Jaime Dasca Doble.

The worlds contained in these words will enchant the reader. Polished like the finest jade, these poems catch the light and throw it back to us, the atonished reader. "The poems in this first collection have the cold clarity of water. They talk about the passion of politics and the politics of passion. They burn with the electric volts of heartbreak and love. Moreover, they remind us about the slippery beauty and danger of the Muse. In the end, the 'sound of (their) chimes wounds (the) slilence frozen inside u. My best bet for the next grat brown hope of Philippine poetry--in two languages." Danton Remoto "Order of the Poets is an astonishing debut that seeks to reveal how all art, especially the poetic, is not unlike the dispensing of a sacrament. In line after lucide line, what is being summoned forth breathes past the words as spoken by the forked tongue and as graved unto the gritty page...In Doble's able hands, the offering that is the poem transmutes itself into a knowledge that is sweeter than language, and takes shape among the luminous Presences that inform our divinely ordained and suddenly more livable world." J. Neil C. Garcia