Dredging For Atlantis Author:Eileen Tabios DREDGING FOR ATLANTIS, Eileen Tabios' 11th print poetry collection, extends a unique body of work for melding ekphrasis with transcolonialism. Here, she introduces her translation of the painterly technique of scumbling to create poems from other poets' words. From other writers' texts, she also extracts sequences of the hay(na)ku, a poetic fo... more »rm she inaugurated on June 12, 2003 to mark the 105th Anniversary of Philippines' Independence Day from Spain, its three-century colonizer. In DREDGING FOR ATLANTIS, the author addresses loss: a lost country, lost memories, lost words, and lost dreams. But hope remains, and serves as the impetus for new poems.« less