• Before and after the Battle of Manila, a Japanese spy and an American soldier have one thing in common: they both fall in love with Alice Feria, a pianist who would later become one of the first women journalists in the Philippines. Both would prove to be instrumental to her survival during the Japanese occupation and the liberation of Manila.

    Assembling Alice is a portrait of a woman as much as it is a portrait of the times she lived in. She came of age during the commonwealth period, survived both the occupation and the war, and did not write of her experiences as much as she spoke of them to those in her inner circle. Her experiences were sublimated into editorials she wrote for a small magazine called The Filipino Home Companion where she wrote of nation-building and what it meant or should mean to be a Filipino after the second world war. Inside these pages are the stories she told, and have been told about her.

  • Paperback, 7.71 x 5.04 inches, 228 pages

    ISBN 978-981-495-410-5

    Published 2021

  • College Boy examines the small assaults and transgressions that take place in the plain settings of the playground, the parking lot, the workplace, the route home. The poet discovers how these personal acts have been nourished by a dark constellation of learned tendency and behavior that are at the root of toxic masculinity.

  • Paperback, 6 x 0.2 x 8 inches, 91 pages

    ISBN 9786214481446

    Published 2021

  • As much an ode to the origins of the title, as it is a nod to the Filipino’s colonial past, the book examines the sacred spaces of marginalized communities—whether they are sympathetic conjectures about the antebellum American South, or the first Filipino diaspora.

    Winner of the Grand Prize, 2016 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards

  • Published by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House.

    Limited copies available on Good Intentions Books.

  • The Ampersand series gathers two poetry collections by poet Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta. Burning Houses explores the internal movements of loss while Hush Harbor investigates what poet Rachel Rose describes as “the fraught love and power dynamics between men and women, colonizer and colonized.” Lacuesta also tests the limits of her lyrical verse against the range of emotions that empowers them. Often the result is both song and silence, meaning and nonsense, and the interchangeability of all the terms.

  • Paperback, 23 x 15.5 cm, 164 pages

    ISBN 9789715068765

    Published 2021

  • With Eros Redux, Mookie Katigbak Lacuesta revisits her first poetry collection, The Proxy Eros, which was written as a Master’s thesis and for the New School University, and eventually published as a book in 2008. Eros is both other and poem in Katigbak-Lacuesta’s work—a force seen clearly after the fact. If The Proxy Eros was event, Eros Redux is hindsight reworking and rewriting experience.

  • Limited copies available on Good Intentions Books

  • Katigbak rewards her occasional bruise with a maturity of purpose: the rhetorical lyric as a precise reconnaissance of emotions. Remarkable are her reports on “our sweat as second skin”; “the real that was marvelous”; …

    These are poems on love like no other, feigning brutal care when all they really want to do is substitute “The cargo of the unknown” for things we know, such as how the language of love can be so adroit.

    — Alfred Yuson

  • Published by Anvil Publishing