Closing out this year with a sensational guest: poet, Nick Carbó! Listen to this episode and discover how Nick's Filipino American literature and poetry anthologies helped catapult Filipino-American poetics. Find out what he's been up to and listen to him read some of his poems!
http://yourartsygirlpodcast.com/episodes
You can purchase Secret Asian Man here:
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Asian-Man-Nick-Carbo/dp/1932339639
Some interesting links pertaining to Nick's work!
http://archivio.el-ghibli.org/index.php%3Fid=1&issue=01_05§ion=6&index_pos=5&inlingua=t.html
Nick on NPR:
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1667164
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THE BOY IN BLUE SHORTS
The screaming woman on the other side
Of our tall black gate
Would have thrown a rock at me
My maid, Rosita, sheltered me from the insults—
Something about my being
Retarded and full of worms
The woman nudged her son forward.
Blue shorts, clean t-shirt, rubber slippers.
She said her little boy was the one
Who should have been adopted, he was healthy.
He looked about my age, four or five.
We were both silent.
“I want to see the Mr. and the Mrs.,
they are making a big mistake!”
Rosita bolted the gate, took me by the hand—
“those are bad people, don’t listen to them!”
I felt the crisp whiteness of her skirt all the way across
The garden back to our house.
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The next poem was recently scrolled on the big screen in the big U2 and Bono's Joshua Tree concert in Manila in December 2019. They might use the poem in some video in the future.
DIRECTIONS TO MY IMAGINARY CHILDHOOD
If you stand on the corner
Of Mabini Street and Legazpi Avenue,
Wait for an orchid colored mini-bus
With seven oblong doors,
Open the fourth door—
An oscillating electric fan
Will be driving, tell her to proceed
To the Escolta diamond district—
You will pass Maneng Virays bar,
La isla de los ladrones
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