Christian Benitez teaches Filipino literature, rhetoric, and criticism at the Ateneo de Manila University, where he finished his AB-MA degree in Filipino Literature. The locus of criticism and poetics is time, as tropically articulated in mythology and history. Hailed as the Poet of the Year 2018 by the Commission on the Filipino Language, his works have been published in SOFTBLOW, High Chair, Diagram, and Kritika Kultura, among other places. He is currently a member of the Film Desk of Young Critics Circle. [Book Reviews]