Caesuras gathers 155 new poems by Cesar Ruiz Aquino, one of the Philippines’ most decorated writers and a SEA Write Award laureate, ranging across haiku, non-traditional sonnets, imagined rengga, and free verse lyricisms. The title is itself a play on the poet’s name—a pause between beats that captures the collection’s meditation on voice, form, and the spaces between words.

“You’ve always wanted to be a mage,
and now in answering to higher forces
you’ve become one without question.”
—W. P. Sanchez

“A quicksilver mind ever in motion.”
—Marjorie Evasco