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'The measure of skin navigates the surging waves of anti-identity sweeping the world today, where one’s propensity to stand out in the crowd — because of skin colour and gender persuasion — becomes a howl for acceptance and recognition in the streets where humanity thrives, in the walls where hope breathes, in another’s touch where love resides. They are poems that are not just about love, but of how love and faith in one’s identity transcend the ideals of a normative reality.' (Publication summary)
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Felicity Plunkett Reviews The Measure of Skin by Ramon Loyola
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , March no. 23 2019;
— Review of The Measure of Skin 2018 selected work poetry'Poets have recurrent signatures – words, images, modes and motifs – imprints unique as a fingerprint’s whorl. For Philippines-born poet, editor, lawyer and writer of short fiction, Ramon Loyola, one of these is just this: images of skin, literal and figurative, and an exploration of the ways skin communicates and mediates unique histories.' (Introduction)
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Felicity Plunkett Reviews The Measure of Skin by Ramon Loyola
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , March no. 23 2019;
— Review of The Measure of Skin 2018 selected work poetry'Poets have recurrent signatures – words, images, modes and motifs – imprints unique as a fingerprint’s whorl. For Philippines-born poet, editor, lawyer and writer of short fiction, Ramon Loyola, one of these is just this: images of skin, literal and figurative, and an exploration of the ways skin communicates and mediates unique histories.' (Introduction)
