In Line Affairs, Lawdenmarc Decamora traces the shifting boundaries between language and desire, geography and memory. These poems inhabit airports, islands, bridges, and city streets, yet remain equally attentive to the unseen lines that shape identity and longing. With startling metaphors and a restless, cosmopolitan imagination, Decamora moves between the Philippines and elsewhere, between history’s inheritances and the urgencies of the present. By turns playful and meditative, intimate and expansive, Line Affairs invites readers into a world where connection is fragile, distances collapse, and every crossing leaves its mark.
Lawdenmarc Decamora
is a poet, academic writer, and traveler whose poetry can be read in Michigan Quarterly Review, The Common, Pleiades, peripheries, The Best Asian Poetry 2021-22, among other publications. He is the author of previously published poetry collections Love, Air (Atmosphere Press, 2021), TUNNELS (Ukiyoto Publishing, 2021), as well as the chapbooks Lady Pat’s Chapbook of Manicured Eyebrows for Post-Fordist Vending Machines (Newcomer Press, 2023) and Dream Minerals One (Ghost City Press, 2022). He is a semi-finalist in the 2023 Tomaž Šalamun Prize and has also been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net. Teaching literature and cultural studies at the University of Santo Tomas, Lawdenmarc divides his time between Manila and Pampanga.