THE HALO-HALO REVIEW'S MANGOZINE--ISSUE 16

THE HALO-HALO REVIEW presents The Mangozine which features new reviews and serves as the online publisher for reviews and other engagements (e.g. book introductions) published in print but not yet available within the internet.  Other features, including author interviews and reader testimonials, also will be presented. The following presents a Table of Contents for Issue 16 -- CLICK on links to go to the reviews.

Submission deadline for the 17th issue has been set at April 15, 2024 (though we will take reviews sooner than the deadline if that is more convenient for the reviewers).

ISSUE 16

(December 2023)

Editor's Note:  Welcome to the 16th issue of THE HALO-HALO REVIEW where we provide engagements with Filipino-Pilipinz literature and art and authors/artists through reviews and engagements, interviews, feature articles, and other prose. We hope readers, writers, artists, and publishers will continue to participate and share information about numerous Filipino authors and the wide variety of their writings. 

I.  NEW REVIEWS AND ENGAGEMENTS

Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898–1941 by Genevieve Alva Clutario (Duke University Press, 2023)

Reviewed by Vicente L. Rafael

Getting to One by Eileen R. Tabios and harry k stammer (Sandy Press, 2023)

Reviewed by Harold Legaspi

The Beginning of Leaving by Elsa Valmidiano (Querencia Press, 2023)

Reviewed by Morgan Hoffman

Open for Interpretation: A Doctor's Journey into Astrology by Alicia Blando, M.D. (She Writes Press, 2023)

Reviewed by Maileen Hamto

The Maps of Camarines by Maryanne Moll (Penguin Random House SEA, 2023)

Engaged by Eileen Tabios

A Village in the Fields by Patty Enrado (Eastwind Books, Berkeley, 2015)

Engaged by Rachielle Ragasa Sheffler

Every Ounce of Courage: A Daughter’s Reflection on Her Mother’s Bravery by Elizabeth Ann Besa-Quirino (2023)

Reviewed by Maileen Hamto

Wildflowers by Beverly Parayno (Philippine American Writers and Artists, 2023)

Reviewed by Justine Villanueva

Outlaw Mage :The Dageian Puppetmaster #1 by K.S.Villoso (Vigil Publishing Co., 2023)

Reviewed by Eric Smith

The In(ter)vention of the Hay(na)ku: Selected Tercets 1996-2019 by Eileen R. Tabios (Marsh Hawk Press, 2019)

Reviewed by Lynn Grow 

FLASH REVIEWS of Mountain Dreaming: New Essays by Gemino Abad (2015, UP Press); The Proxy Eros by Mookie Katigbak Lacuesta (Anvil, 2008); Sula's Voyage by Catherine Torres (Scholastica, 2014); October Light by Jeff Tagami (Kearney Street Workshop, 1990)

Reviewed by Aloysiusi Polintan

II. AUTHOR INTERVIEWS, POST-BOOK

Jim Pascual Agustin, Waking Up to the Pattern of a Snail Left Overnight

Danton Remoto, The Heart of Summer: Stories and Tales

III. READERS SHOW SOME LOVE TO FILIPINO AUTHORS
Go HERE to read:

Leny Strobel on Eileen R. Tabios and M. Evelina Galang

Dani Magsumbol on Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio

Hilton Obenzinger on Beverly Parayno

Eileen Tabios on Marlon Hacla

Josie Fernandez on Beverly Parayno

Vicente Rafael on Grace Talusan

Eileen Tabios on Nick Carbo

Rashaan Alexis Meneses on Beverly Parayno

Karyn Wergland on Beverly Parayno

Beau Beausoleil on Eileen R. Tabios

IV.  FEATURES

"Appropriations and Approximations: Authorship, Exactitude, and Poetry Translation in Theory and Practice" by Ralph Semino Galán, with Merlie M. Alunan's poetry

"THE POLITICS OF ART, THE ART OF POLITICS: Knowledge or Pleasure, Subversion or Acquiescence?" by E. San Juan, Jr.

Introducing the New MONOBON POETRY FORM

Introduction by Eileen R. Tabios

With Monobon Poems featuring

William Allegrezza

Aileen Cassinetto

Maica Castillo

Lorelyn De La Cruz Aravelo

Carol Dorf

Thomas Fink

Skye Ibarra

Luisa A. Igloria

Jashley C. Laconico

Julia Rose Lewis

Sandy McIntosh

Sheila E. Murphy

Bruce W. Niedt

Jenny Ortuoste

Zosimo Quibilan, Jr.

Rachielle Ragasa Sheffler

harry k stammer

Leny M. Strobel

Eileen R. Tabios

V. FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE/REPRINTS

From Books: Introductions, Prefaces, Forewords, Afterwords, Author's Notes & Other Prose

Translator's Note by Angela Narcisso Torres for BUM TIYAYA BUM by Rene O. Villanueva (Tahanan Books, 2023)

Preface by Christine Start for Rooted in Practice: Pinays in Law edited by Justine Eva Li Villanueva in collaboration with Pinay Powerhouse (Sawaga River Press, 2022)

Introduction by Justine Eva Li Villanueva for Rooted in Practice: Pinays in Law edited by Justine Eva Li Villanueva in collaboration with Pinay Powerhouse (Sawaga River Press, 2022)