Poetry. Asian American Studies. "In Paolo Javier's THE FEELING IS ACTUAL, he writes: 'I've been / a grand-gesture guy in the past. & in all likelihood, / I will continue to be one in the future.'
Poetry. Asian American Studies. In his first poetry collection, Paolo Javier overlaps life in New York with his childhood spent in Manila and Cairo and imagined senior years referred to as "The Lid To
Javier s new book of long poems is both intimate and elusive, a simultaneity brought to the fore by the author s interest in the occult and intuitive processes, in oblique and plain spoken discourses.