Shockbox : ang butas na kahon ni Kulas Talon : the complete posthumous poetry / Kulas Talon ; translated from the original Tagalog to English by Mikael de Lara Co ...[et al.]

Includes index.

In this book's affirmation of the power of poetic collaboration, we hear the poems in Tagalog and English carefully vring together, on the page and in the ear, different ways with language that give breath to what Kulas Talon's itinerant urban troubador observes in the box-within-the-box-within-the-possibly bigger-boxes where everybody seems to live. His poems punch holes into these boxes, exposing the oftentimes raw and rendered pointless, and the observing eye leaves the reader with the detritus of the scene for rumination of a deadening world. Let not the Schockbox revelations reiterate in our reading and re-readings the prophetic lament in the opening poem "Kahon":Sinubukan niyang ipaliwanag ito sa ibang tao ngunit walang makinig.-Marjorie Evasco