Patricia Arcilla

Patricia Arcilla is a Filipino-Australian writer living & working on unceded Gadigal land.  She writes about cities, culture, and the Filipino diaspora, and her work has appeared in Kill Your Darlings, Jacobin, Overland, and more.

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Review: Patricia Arcillaon Eunice Andrada
  • TAKE CARE by Eunice Andrada Giramondo
    72pp
    Published September 2021
    ISBN: 9781925818796

Cleaning the Body with the Body

Andrada can share testimony of some of her most painful, personal experiences, but choose exactly which parts of herself to reveal and which to remain hidden. Look, she invites her reader, look at how skillfully I can create all these perfect likenesses of myself. And watch as I destroy them all.
Feb. 2022 • •