60 lv Bo(e)mbs

Author: Paolo Javier

Publisher: O Books (2005)

Paolo Javier’s 60 Iv Bo(e)mbs is a polysemic pastiche that snatches speech fragments from a broad cultural spectrum spanning the US, Philippines and beyond. Its rollicking, shapeshifting vision seems to draw from a pre-conceptual space, resulting in what John Yau has called “an explosive brew of zany Americano, Tagalog, gobs of officialese, Hollywood pop melodrama, the Iliad and Virgil.”