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Zine: Salamisim  Author: Frejae Gamboa Publisher: Tridax Zines, 2025 DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 20 April) — There is a moment in  Salamisim  where the speaker asks, almost desperately, for their eyes to be taken from them:  “Ibuta gud ning mga mata ko”  — Gouge these eyes out. To see, in  Salamisim , is to be caught within a system where bodies are made legible, exposed, and, eventually, reduced. Across its poems,  Salamisim  returns obsessively to this problem: what happens to the body when it is seen too much, too closely, and by the wrong eyes. As author Frejae Gamboa of Magpet, North Cotabato describes it,  Salamisim  is a collection shaped by grief carried over time, tracing loss across generations, from a young girl to a grandfather to a father, each piece attempting to hold together fragments of memory and identity. The zine unfolds through fragmentation. In “SANTIENT,” the body appears in dismembered  parts — eyes,...