Gravities of Center

by Barbara Jane Reyes

Contained in this collection are poems and prose pieces which exhibit Barbara’s oftentimes eclectic style / sensibilities and willingness to experiment with form and language. With serious and playful poems very much rooted in San Francisco Bay Area urban and suburban cultures, settings, and vernaculars, a geographically faraway Philippines is never absent from this Pilipina American writer’s consciousness. Consistent throughout Gravities of Center are themes of longing, desire, diaspora, postcoloniality, feminism, and coming of age.

Genres: Poetry

73 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Author of Gravities of Center, Poeta en San Francisco, Diwata, To Love as Aswang, Invocation to Daughters, and Letters to a Young Brown Girl.

Reviews

[Paolo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Barbara Jane Reyes is just warming up poetechnics in this, her truly wide-ranging, inspired, incendiary, and amorous (thought not necessarily in this order) first collection
of poems. I simply adore '101 words that don't quite describe me', and 'sirena' (for rather obvious reasons to those who know me). Love this book, and you will too.

[Lisl · Rating 4 out of 5]

i mean, she's my cousin!