Trill & Mordent (WordTech Editions, September
2005); Runner-up, 2004 Editions Prize for Poetry; 2005
Calatagan Award (from the Philippine American Writers’ and Artists
Association, San Francisco; awards ceremonies at the Randall Museum, 5 November
2005); Nominee for the 9th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards,
Poetry category (2006); Nominee for the 2007 Global Filipino
Literary Awards, Poetry category

“The lush and humid poems of Luisa Igloria’s Trill & Mordent are a feast for
the ear and the eye. Bursts of color and music punctuate Igloria’s dense, crafted
lines, inviting the reader into Filipina life, a world at once strange and yet
familiar to an American reader, opening wider perspectives into the commonalities
and differences between America and the country it has so deeply influenced
over the past century, the Philippines.” ~ publisher’s blurb

“Encountering the poems in Trill & Mordent, one is blessed with
a Lucullan banquet of apt images and a feast of savory sentences. Luisa Igloria
offers “the face that floats beneath the water of itself” and trains
the “tongue to lexicon of ruffle and flounce.” These poems will linger
in the reader’s mouth. — Nick Carbó, author of Andalusian
Dawn

“Luisa Igloria’s new collection reflects a generous and sincere poet’s
meditations on daily news charged with “the blunt wick of fear.” Her
poems honor history and the private stories we keep in the body’s memory. Rhythmically
graceful, these poems nourish the soul.” — Eugene Gloria,
author of Drivers at the Short-Time Motel

“Trill & Mordent is as original and evocative as its title from
page one to its end. Filled with life, sensual, sensuous, this is a book by
a young poet with undeniable gifts.” — Thomas Lux

“In her new book, Trill & Mordent, Luisa Igloria sings with the
cadence of a beautiful songbird. Her poems are elegant and gorgeous; her landscapes
verdant and vast. The storyteller in these poems cannot help but bring forth
a devastating richness: delicious aromas of home-cooked meals, strong family
ties, enchantment from a far-away childhood. This is the poet’s best work to
date, and I have to say I savored every word, every page as if an angel were
singing it to me.” – Virgil Suarez

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