Palaboy°

Reviews & Praise

Serious humans
should study this

Foreword · Rick Brand, MD · Psychiatrist

“Palaboy is a multilevel treatise in poetry and psychology. Serious humans should study this work.”

Reading Palaboy, Brand writes, was like being granted a wish he had long held over his patients — not an X-ray of the brain, but an MRI of the mind, laying bare the poet’s inner processes with rare honesty.

— Rick Brand, MD

The US Review of Books

In her feature for the US Review of Books, reviewer Niknesha Hairston reads Palaboy — Tagalog for “wanderer” — as a narrative-in-verse that follows a young poet’s drift into isolation and grief, then his gradual turn back toward life through a sustaining bond. She singles out the poem-by-poem reflections and the work’s raw emotional truth as what give the collection its distinctive voice.

Read more
Read Palaboy on Amazon