Description
Author: Andrea V. Tubig
Editor-at-Large: Jerry V. Gracio
A feast of feelings, a riot of hues, and a journey through midnight cravings—Andrea V. Tubig’s Tonight We Slurp in Color is a vivid, genre- blurring exploration of hunger, heartbreak, and a strange—almost obsessive—hankering for all things racy, raunchy, and deliciously obscene.
There is nothing reverential about this book—everything and everyone is fair game—and unapologetically so. Blending surrealism with sensory detail so rich it practically drips off the pages, Tubig invites readers to slurp, savor, and surrender.
Tonight We Slurp in Color is for anyone who has ever longed so tenaciously for something they could not name—and found it in the most unexpected place.
Come hungry. Come curious. Just don’t come alone.
REVIEWS:
“File this under the Dewey Decimal for ‘Funhouse Doomsday Degeneracy.’ Tubig’s sprawling assholery and tender explosions of effluence make me feel vandalised, crushed, and peed on—in the most beloved fashion.” —Marylyn Tan, author of Gaze Back
“In this new edition of Tonight We Slurp in Color, Andy Tubig is asking: ‘Is this what it means to be a poet?’ To be a poet—where? In the Philippines, where conservatism and machismo are bedfellows? To be a poet—when? In this age of the attention economy and doomscrolling? It confronts, and maybe even aims to dismantle, a status quo that shortchanges its artists and privileges a neat world.
Equal parts ars/ass poetica, this unapologetically unsubtle collection is packed with erotic hyperbole and dares to disturb.” —Jasmine Nikki C. Paredes, author of We Will See The Scatter and Reclamations
“Like an old, yappy friend—who your conservative parents don’t really like, calls them shameless, scandalous, probably satanic, and a really bad influence; hence highly discourages you from seeing them—you haven’t seen them in person for quite a long time, and thank God the fated brunch finally happened! Cosmopolitan, its tactlessness done with such sophistication, playful, spicy, and mischievous, Tubig’s collection is a vibrant, raw, and an exemplary body of work whose charm mainly lies in its transgression, its eloquence of the language of rage, its candor destitute of any hints of apology, and the absolute lack of inhibitions such that it makes even the hardest and most absurd of conversations seemingly casual. In Tonight We Slurp in Color, each poem is a truthful proposition, handing the reader epiphanies womanhood with such exhaustion of all its known pretensions and the expectations that contain it, and such a sickening and maddening confidence in doing so. — Memory Prudenciado, author of Made of Saltwater and the forthcoming The Island, The City, and The Milk Tea Generation
Size: 5" x 8"
Number of pages: 112
Publisher: Vibal Foundation Inc.
Imprint: Paraluman
Copyright: 2025