What strikes the reader upon reading the poems of Jaime Dasca Doble is the sheer diversity of the subject matter. The work collected in Order of the Poets has poems of desire and doom, of longing and lamentation, of Eros and Eromenos. But it offers more. It also has poems about the ravished past that is the martial-law regime of the dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos.

But these protest poems are not written in the usual cut-and-dried fashion. Rather, they are written like narratives. Memorable characterizations mark the narratives that lie at the core of these poems.

The book also has poems about the family and community not being the bedrock of society but being the center of pain. The people in the poems do not have skins; they have walls. Moreover, it has poems that show history is something we create, not something handed down to us in fossilized form. How to deal with a fragmented past, a colonized self, a system shot through with the burdens of history? And more important: how to write an ars poetica about all these without sounding like a module in political discussion group?

The worlds contained in these words will enchant the reader. Polished like the finest jade, these poems catch the light and throw it back to us, the astonished reader.

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