Reseña del libro "Inspecting Wastelands: Poems"
Inspecting Wastelands: Poems, Noeme Grace C. Tabor-Farjani's second collectionof poetry, oscillates between presentist fugitivity of the here-and-now and theregal dreamlands of what could have been. The poems in this collection spanfrom North Africa to the Southern Philippines, from Tripoli in the Maghrebto Cagayan de Oro in Mindanao-thematically touching on outsiderness in thediaspora and even in the homeland, and staying true to the unspoken creed ofbelongingness to nowhere. In this collection, Tabor-Farjani's veering towardspolyvocality is at its best: an elegy to the bygone, a quarantine diary, a love songto a daughter, a dream journal, an evocation to maternal ancestors, a letter to agrieving friend.Beyond domestic liminalities and the suburban cityscape, Tabor-Farjani, as a poetand as a surviving witness to the world, once again proves herself as a nativeof the crevices between sentience and sleep, between higher thought and thequotidian, between memory and the mythic.