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M of the Southern Downpours is Alton Melvar M Dapanas' second collection of prose poems. As queer scholar Wen-chi Li wrote, Dapanas' prose poems 'are both a tender embrace and a daring confession.'
About the author
Alton Melvar M. Dapanas (they/them), essayist, poet, and translator from the southern Philippines, is the author of In the Name of the Body: Lyric Essays (Canada: Wrong Publishing, 2023) and Towards a Theory on City Boys: Prose Poems (UK: Newcomer Press, 2021). Their works-published from South Africa to Japan, France to Australia, and translated into Chinese and Swedish-appeared in World Literature Today, BBC Radio 4, The White Review, Sant Jordi Festival of Books, and the anthologies Infinite Constellations (University of Alabama Press) and He, She, They, Us: Queer Poems (Pan Macmillan UK). They currently serve as editor-at-large at Asymptote, and as assistant nonfiction editor at Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, and Atlas & Alice Literary Magazine. Formerly with Creative Nonfiction magazine, they've been nominated to The Best Literary Translations and twice to the Pushcart Prize for their lyric essays. Find more at https: //linktr.ee/samdapanas.
