Books

Barbara Jane Reyes on Marcelina:

“Vengua resists the insularity, the suffocation of that history, pays back this violence with witness, with gentle words. She pays respect to the woman, Marcelina, by honoring the earth in which she was interred.”

Maileen Dumelod Hamto reviews Marcelina in The Halo-Halo Review.

Eileen Tabios on Corporeal:

“. . .in these poems, the poet’s “wrists are magic” and the receptive reader can be led to grace if not bliss: ‘some kisses are / sweeter than wine.’

John Bloomberg-Rissman on Prau, in Galatea Resurrects #9, edited by Eileen Tabios.

Susan M. Schultz on Prau:

“Vengua’s poems gently yet firmly navigate us towards yet to be explored spheres of psychological and lyrical revelation where “by turns and in rounds we are angry, indifferent and in love’ and ‘without ghosts, the obscurity of night becomes real.’ This is page-turner, addictive poetry that never falters in its gaze at the integrity of dream and the dream of integrity.”