Writing Desire, Rewriting Chineseness

Abstract

This essay discusses the author's poetics and politics as a writer, specifically how his subject position as Filipino Chinese and gay informs what and how he writes. He explores and thus explains what it means to be a Chinese Filipino gay writer, what it means to be a pilgrim of the Word, what it means to discover poetry and to use it to affirm an abjected identity, resurrect a forgotten voice, reconstruct a bigoted history and proclaim the intransigence of desire.