ESL or You Weren’t Here tells the story of a queer Pinoy who immigrates to New York in the 1990s in order to be reunited with their parents. What follows is the poet’s awakening to the legacy of American imperialism & colonialism in the Philippines, and to the experience of living between languages, cultures, temporalities, and genders—untranslatable. ESLasks the reader to bear witness to embodied histories of forced immigration, separation and abandonment rooted in patriarchal racism.
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Aldrin Valdez. ESL or You Weren't Here
CONTENTS
Tagalog
Blue Bakla
The Albularyo
During a brownout:
Photograph Curling
Crossing
November
fall / pall
ESL or You Weren’t Here
Mrs. B Tells My Mother I Must Speak Only English at Home
Long Distance Images
Her hand
Purple Gender
The ancestral sense of HOLD is preserved in BEHOLD: “to keep, to tend, to watch over” / see: HAPTIC / see: “a place of refuge” / see: where?
Divination with Utensils
P / Ph / F
Photograph
Opened
Memory
Bumigay
Wearing a skirt on a Sunday afternoon
Faggot Phonetics
Sagad
SHUFFLED SLIDES OF A CHANGING PAINTING
Notes
Acknowledgments
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