ABOUT THE BOOK

The attention to the malleable shapes of the lyric sequence—which began in his first two books—persists prominently in Ned Parfan’s third volume of poetry. Consisting entirely of four chapbook-length sequences, Beloved Antimatter features a procedural homage to two poets, an apostrophe on biological frustrations around the desire to have a child, a disembodied lover’s voice hurtling between the present and the fictional realm of Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere, and a lyric narrative on nonexclusive polyamory. Parfan’s latest work offers longtime and new readers a variety of coherences, fragmentations, personae, formal compulsions, and thematic obsessions.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ned Parfan is the author of two previous collections of poetry, The Murmur Asylum (2014) and Tilt Me and I Bend (2017), both published by the University of the Philippines Press. The Vanished (19th Avenida Publishing House, 2023), his translation of Chuckberry J. Pascual’s Ang Nawawala, is a 42nd National Book Awards finalist for Best Translated Book in English. He teaches at the University of Santo Tomas where he currently serves as director of the UST Publishing House.