Give me a reason to abandon everything

by Mark Anthony Cayanan

Published in the author’s poetry collection, Except you enthrall me (2013), from University of the Philippines Press. Click the arrow (>) to learn more about this piece

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Mark Anthony Cayanan holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and a PhD from the University of Adelaide, where they received the University Doctoral Research Medal. Their full-length poetry books are Narcissus (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2011), Except you enthrall me (University of the Philippines Press, 2013), and Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous (Giramondo Publishing, 2021). Their poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Indiana Review, Electric Literature’s The Commuter, and Australian Poetry Journal. A permanent resident of Angeles City, Philippines, they are currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin.

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