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 The Great Jar." Javier's poems sail over the handlebars of a Huffy bicycle; saunter through the city onto balconies with lovers; respond to the visual art of Manuel Ocampo; and curse a botched reading of Tagalog. Of this book, Anselm Berrigan says, "Perceptive poems; that there is pleasure despite it all in never knowing what might happen next is no small part of what they know."

The Time at the End of This Writing

Literature & Fiction

Javier, Paolo

Poetry

Ahadada Books

OBB a.k.a. The Original Brown Boy has many identities: it is a comics poem and a manifesto on comics poetry; an experimental comic book sequel to a poem twenty years in the making; and an homage to the Mimeo Revolution, weird fiction, kamishibai, the political cartoon, Pilipinx komiks history, and the poet bp Nichol. Javier deconstructs a post-9/11 Pilipinx identity amid the lasting fog of the Philippine American War, to compose a far-out comic book awit.

O.B.B.

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Nightboat Books

TRUE ACCOUNT OF TALKING TO THE 7 IN SUNNYSIDE is a book of experiments with the para literary and hybrid text, inhabiting the space/s of the poem &/in cinema, collaboration, comics, curation, public parks, social media, sound art, and occasional walks in the neighborhood. Spanning cinema, drawing, collage, and sound, Javier's poems engage a wide range of subjects and entities, including art fairs, a new public park on the West Side Highway, the deaths of pop music icons, gentrification, world revolutions, and the work/worlds of Joseph Cornell and Robert Seydel. True Account of Talking to the 7 in Sunnyside is also an homage to Queens, the borough that continues to inspire and make possible Javier's restless poetry. "Paolo Javier's poems are magic carpets of extravagant textures (visual and verbal). Javier combines an engagement with the social politics of the local with a commitment to aesthetic freedom that exultantly borders on abandon (a band's dome): a 'communard pulveriz[ing] rapaciousness.' Onwards!" --Charles Bernstein Poetry.

True Account of Talking to the 7 in Sunnyside

Arts & Photography

Segue Foundation

Poetry. "Paolo Javier's 60 LV BO(E)MBS is one of the most radically detourned poetics that I've encountered in a long time. Rocking hard the perimeter of a national American literary metabolic center, Javier deftly develops what critical theorists have only been able to talk about: the birth of a non-idealist anticipatory-resilient para-national subject. His poetry engenders a polysemic motility that gives inner-life to this new state of 'independence'. What does that mean? It means your kolonial momma's got your poppa's digits-'by the products'"--Rodrigo Toscano. Javier is also the author of THE TIME AT THE END OF THIS WRITING, also available from SPD.

60 Lv Bo(e)mbs

O-Books

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. Politically and erotically charged, Court of the Dragon eludes programmatic ideology, packaged identity politics, and confessionalism in its interrogation of the praxes of everyday living. Written over the course of a year, this striking new book conjures its future through intuition, improvisation, and magick.

Court of the Dragon

Poetry. Music. Evolving from a libretto for performance with Listening Center originally commissioned by the High Line, MAYBE THE SWEET HONEY POURS is made up of new poems that fold into a longer work drafted across several train rides from NYC to Toronto, Canada. Its present form resembles the seriality of Ted Berrigan, Frances Chung, Lorine Niedecker, &amp; Stephen Jonas' poems. Overtly, MAYBE THE SWEET HONEY POURS is a love poem about hitting the re-set button, and rhapsodizing about Wong Kar Wai's Happy Together while mourning the loss of musical icons David Bowie, Phife Dawg, and Prince. But still-present (North American) border anxieties, racial melancholia, transnational identity, fatherhood, and Buddhist teachings number among the poem's spectral affections.

Maybe the Sweet Honey Pours

Nion Editions

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