Type O Negative - by Jöel B Tan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Type O Negative</i> is a collection of poetry that draws on Joel Tan's life in the Philippines and America. He uses powerful imagery and drama to illuminate the experiences and the passions of human nature. He focuses on loss, sexuality, love, and all the emotions that come with growing up and going through life. Tan's unique style of poetry brings readers right into the heart of his narrative.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>A narrative of pain and loss, a memory piece of such raw emotion and sadness<br>it will make you weep. Nothing I have read in the past several years comes<br>close to matching Joel Tan in the nightmarish intensity of his vision."</p><p> --Marianne Villanueva, author of <i>Mayor of the Roses</i></p><br><br><p>It seems funny to praise the people in a book of poetry, for poetry is supposed to have been cleansed of the human, denatured, forced to wear the mask of the "impersonal," but in Joël Tan's work you have an enormous hall of living pictures, vigorous as those in Melvin Tolson's Harlem Gallery forty years back. Chief among equals is Tan's portrait of his stepfather, and the fiery, sexual energy the man exudes lights the book on fire, singes your fingers on its lava-rich pages. At turns abrupt and languorous, harsh and seductive, Tan's verse in Type O Negative flows like no other in contemporary California writing.</p><p>--Kevin Killian </p><br><br><p>The intense drama of our daily lives - from love gone dry to flings and other infidelities to electronically-driven desire to cocktail-spiked illnesses to beauty and its anxieties - is all here in Tan's superb collection, <i>Type O Negative</i>. Lyrically divided into two sections and split geography, these poems are fierce, urgent, burningly honest, unflinching, headrush to the max, and, above all, magnificently heartbreaking. </p><p> --R. Zamora Linmark, author of <i>Rolling the R's</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Joël Barraquiel Tan is the Director of Community Engagement at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Ca. His publications include El Canto de Animal (Noice Press, 2006) and Monster- Poems (Noice Press, 2002). Tan has been nominated for Lambda Literary Award, Best Anthology, 1998 and his work is currently being used in an Asian American Studies literature course at San Francisco State University, New York University, and Mills College. Joel Tan received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Literature from Antioch University in 2004, and his B.A. in Ethnic Studies at University of California, Berkeley in 2002. He is fluent in Tagalog, Spanish and English. Tan has served as Board Vice-President at the Center for Disease Control and Association of Schools of Public Health's Institute of HIV Prevention Leadership Alumni Association. He is also the Founding Board President of the Center for Disease Control and Association of Schools of Public Health's Institute of HIV Prevention Leadership Alumni Association (2002-2003). He has received the San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant for "savage, i"-2006, the Meet the Composers Grant, for "savage, i"-2005, a grant from the NEA for "Sons"-2004 and a grant from the California Council for Humanities for "Sons"- 2004. His poem "manila zoo" was the 1st Place Winner of Spoon River Poetry Review's 2004 Best Poem, Fall 2004, Volume XXIX, Number 2. Tan has also received the Eloise Klein Healy Talent Award-2002, Antioch University Scholarship-2002, Idyllwild Arts Scholarship-2002, Markowski-Leach: Horizons Foundation, 2000, Filipino American Leadership Scholarship, 2000, HIV Prevention Leadership Fellow- 1999, and the Gay Role Model Award: Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center and Genre Magazine, 1995.
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