Eileen R. Tabios

Signal / Noise

Arts & Literature

“These are poems for calamitous end days. Given the state of the world, this makes Bill Scalia’s Signal / Noise to be timely reading. Fortunately, some lines provide relief with the sheen of their knowing—I will never see a long-haired blonde again without pausing to relish the fall of hair ‘in a perfect slow wave . . . like goats moving on the slopes of Gilead.’ From such poetry, even an atheist can glean the benefits of religion.”