A review by zarvindale
The Nymph of MTV by Angelo V. Suárez

5.0

This book is proof that the youth can match the talents of veterans. Angelo Suarez is a gift to Philippine literature. He debuted a whole poetry collection at 19, and he followed it shortly after with another. Humor abounds here, as well as poetry conventions and the attempts to break them. Suarez stretches literary devices and logic to talk about his family, his lover, his country, and basically everything else that comes to his mind. His aggression is present and never leaves, and translates to lust and care. Reading this book feels like I am pushed to the wall, with my back against it, by a delirious man who positions his forearm against my neck, as if it’s a blade ready to slit my throat, just so he can make me listen to his musings, all of which bear extreme insights and empty threats.