Author Signing with Jim Pascual Agustin Friday, March 10, 2-3 PM Seattle Convention Center, T1009 Conference registration required
A journey between politics and ecology, Waking Up to the Pattern Left by a Snail Overnight (April 2023) — winner of the 2022 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize — bursts open the doors of meditation and madness, of nature and human corruption, throwing the sounds and visions of Taylor Swift, Björk, Maria Ressa, Mad Max, Japanese anime, and the Marcos dictatorship into an unpredictable dance filled with moments of silence and wonder.
The archaeological traces of a snail trail are left on a window, evidence of a fevered, sleepless wandering. A charlatan fortune teller utters prophecies from a coffin of a box. Small moments—the cutting of a butternut squash, the discovery of an octopus in the water —become windows into the tragicomedy of human life.
Jim Pascual Agustin grew up in the Philippines during the Marcos dictatorship and moved to Cape Town, South Africa, in 1994. He writes in Filipino and English. He holds a degree in English Literature from Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. He has been a lecturer, an NGO worker, a secondhand music shop employee, and a fridge cleaner kit seller, among others. Agustin has published several books of poetry and a collection of stories since 1992. His poetry has been recognised at the New Coin DALRO Awards, the EU Sol Plaatje Poetry Awards, and the AVBOB Poetry Competition. Lunch Ticket, a US-based online journal, awarded him the Gabo Prize.
