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December 22, 2014
 

Archipelagic

 
R. A. Villanueva

About This Poem

 

“What to say when someone asks where home is? Especially when ‘home’ for you can mean the Philippines—somewhere you haven’t lived? When you were born a hemisphere away, but have inherited its faiths and myths, its capacity for awe? You give yourself permission to feel at home in your blood; you try to invent a new language for your answer.”
R. A. Villanueva

 

R. A. Villanueva is the author of Reliquaria (University of Nebraska Press, 2014). A founding editor of Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art, he currently lives in London, England.

 

Photo Credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths

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