THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine--Issue 12

In addition to aggregating reviews from the internet, 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 12 -- CLICK on links to go to the reviews.

Submission deadline for the 13th issue has been set at April 15, 2022 (though we will take reviews sooner than the deadline if that is more convenient for the reviewers).

ISSUE 12

(November 2021)

Editor's Note:  Welcome to the 12th issue of THE HALO-HALO REVIEW where we provide engagements with Filipino-Pilipinz literature and art and authors/artists through reviews and engagements, interviews 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

The Kindness of Birds by Merlinda Bobis (Spinifex Press, Queensland, Australia, 2021)

Engaged by Leny Mendoza Strobel

“Selected Notes, Sources & Acknowledgements” to DOVELION: A Fairy Tale for Our Times by Eileen R. Tabios (AC Books, New York, 2021)

Reviewed by Pearl Ubungen

Hotel Pacoima by Michael Caylo-Baradi (Kelsay Books, Utah, 2021)

Reviewed by Neil Leadbeater

We Are No Longer Babaylan: Essays & Stories by Elsa Valmidiano (New Rivers Press, Minneapolis, 2020)

Reviewed by Justine Villanueva

Letters to a Young Brown Girl by Barbara Jane Reyes (BOA Editions, 2020)

Engaged by Jean Vengua

The Great Faith by Jose V. Aguilar (Pantas Publishing Co./Popular Bookstore, Quezon City, 2020-1)

Reviewed by Paulino Lim, Jr.

The Ruin of Everything by Lara Stapleton (Paloma Press, San Mateo, 2021)

Engaged by Eileen Tabios

Accidents of Composition by Melinda Bobis (Spinifex Press, Queensland, Australia, 2017)

Reviewed by Neil Leadbeater

REMAINS by Daryll Delgado (Ateneo de Naga University Press, 2019)

Reviewed by Eric Abalajon

The Intervention of the Hay(na)ku: Selected Tercets by Eileen R. Tabios (Marsh Hawk Press, New York, Hardcover 2019 / Paperback 2021)

Engaged by Burt Kimmelman

Invocation to Daughters by Barbara Jane Reyes (City Lights, San Francisco, CA, 2017)

Reviewed by Neil Leadbeater

Go HERE FOR REVIEWS OF Manahatta Mahal: Collected Expatriate Poems by Luis Cabalquinto (University of the Philippines, 2007); Magdalena by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2016; Plain View Press, 2002); Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous by Mark Anthony Cayanan (Giramondo, 2021); Amigo Warfare by Eric Gamalinda (Cherry Grove Collections, 2007); The Garden of Wordlessness by J. Neil Garcia (University of the Philippines, 2005); The Words and Other Poems by Francis Macansantos (University of the Philippines, 1997);  Bird Lands, River Nights and Other Melancholies by Jose Malte Abueg (University of the Philippines, 2009); Babae, sa Balumbalonan ni Hakob at Iba pang Kwento by Mayette M. Bayuga (University of the Philippines, 2015); We Shall Write Love Poems Again by Dinah Roma (UST Publishing House, 2020); DRIFT by Joel H. Vega (UST Publishing House, 2018); Hairtrigger Loves: 50 Poems on Woeman by Alfred A. Yuson (University of the Philippines, 2004); kolboy by Carlo Tadiar (University of the Philippines Press, 2021)

Reviewed by Aloysiusi Polintan

II. AUTHOR INTERVIEWS, POST-BOOK

Barbara Jane Reyes / Letters to a Young Brown Girl

Elizabeth Ann Besa-Quirino / My Mother's Philippine Recipes

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

*   Eileen Tabios on Patrick Rosal

*   Allan G. Aquino on Barbara Jane Reyes

*   Eileen Tabios on Justine Villanueva

*   Edna Consing Conception on Cecilia Brainard

*   Alice Brody on Eileen Tabios

IV.  FEATURES

"Filipino/English Play-Drive: Reflections on the Translation Game" by E. San Juan, Jr.

"Calligraphy: The 3 Perfections" by Rene J. Navarro

"Academic Works in Filipinx American/Diasporic Studies" by Vicente L. Rafael

V. FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE

Reviews

MT Vallarta reviews More Than Organs by Kay Ulanday Barrett (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020)

Neil Leadbeater reviews WHAT COUNTS by Eileen Tabios (Tony Firman Bookbinding, Texas, 2020)

From Books: Introductions, Prefaces, Forewords, Afterwords and Author's Notes

Jose Y. Dalisay, Jr. presents the Introduction to Departures: Essays by Priscilla Supnet Macansantos (The Philippine Writers Series, 2021)