{"product_id":"neon-manila-by-troy-cabida","title":"Neon Manila by Troy Cabida","description":"\u003cp class=\"mobile-undersized-upper\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNeon Manila\u003c\/span\u003e, the debut poetry collection by Troy Cabida, is an exploration of the queer Filipino body in all of its skin and glitter. Under the spinning disco ball, Cabida captures facets of pop music, fashion, jewellery, dating mishaps, and of London life. These dazzling poems seek perspectives on the relationships we build with ourselves, how the external world shapes us, and how we live with being both fragile and unbreakable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"mobile-undersized-upper\"\u003eAt their luminous heart, Cabida’s poems range between bittersweet longing, irresistible openness, and the desire to belong and to break out – particularly from the various kinds of discrimination that attempt to confine us.\u003cspan\u003e Neon Manila\u003c\/span\u003e is a glorious, bold, wholehearted resistance to that, full of sparkly and sophisticated poems that refuse to dim their light. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"mobile-undersized-upper\"\u003ePraise for \u003cspan\u003eNeon Manila\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"mobile-undersized-upper\"\u003e‘Troy Cabida’s stunning debut takes the idea of vulnerability within a poem and repackages a new world where ‘grief [is] turned tactile, thus breakable.’ I love how Cabida constantly surprises: an image of light on sunglasses ‘like sun against a skyscraper’. \u003cspan\u003eNeon Manila\u003c\/span\u003e is a beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’ -\u003cspan\u003e Joe Carrick-Varty  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"mobile-undersized-upper\"\u003e‘In poems that both haunt and delight with all their restless perception, \u003cspan\u003eNeon Manila\u003c\/span\u003e navigates the glittery maze in which notions of brownness and desirability, queerness and hospitality, intermingle, quarrel, roil, and romp. Like the most delicious gossip and the most devastating prayer, Troy Cabida’s work brings its reader into a world of unflinching vulnerability. Like a lover’s pit-stained, memory-scented turtleneck sweater, this book intoxicates with a stinging clarity. What a stylish and truly bold debut.’ -  \u003cspan\u003eChen Chen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"mobile-undersized-upper\"\u003e‘Like the electric glow in its title, \u003cspan\u003eNeon Manila\u003c\/span\u003e is a sharp light against a dark backdrop. The poems illuminate in their flirtatious ways of dressing \u0026amp; undressing, revealing the brown boy self, silhouetted, accessorized, winterized, muscular, vulnerable.’ -  \u003cspan\u003eJoseph Legaspi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"mobile-undersized-upper\"\u003e‘An entirely moving collection exploring the fullness of materiality and being. Here is the body rendered weighted and weightless, dressed and naked.’ -  \u003cspan\u003eRachel Long\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"mobile-undersized-upper\"\u003e‘\u003cspan\u003eNeon Manila\u003c\/span\u003e is a captivating and slim read, and the voice Cabida introduces in these poems blend the vibrant prominence of neon with Manila’s imprintable mundanity. With all its sardonicism, its ethic of referentiality, and its full-throated desire, I recommend this book to you.’ - \u003cspan\u003e Oluwaseun Olayiwola\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"mobile-undersized-upper\"\u003e‘\u003cspan\u003eNeon Manila\u003c\/span\u003e is a brilliant lyrical exploration of what it means to exist in a queer brown body. The poetry moves between fashion, Freud and family with ease, grace and insight. A powerful debut by a poet who is definitely one to watch.’ - \u003cspan\u003eNathalie Teitler\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback \/ 72 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"The Bookish Type","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57361603756413,"sku":null,"price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/0891\/0933\/files\/neonbetter.jpg?v=1762865539","url":"https:\/\/thebookishtype.pro\/products\/neon-manila-by-troy-cabida","provider":"The Bookish Type","version":"1.0","type":"link"}