Shadow of the Wind | Cesar Ruiz Aquino
This new collection, Shadow of the Wind, is not only Sir Sawi’s life work; it is his work in multiple forms and reincarnations—written, published, republished, and rewritten across different periods of his life. As readers, we know that environment, circumstance, and even age shape how we encounter a text. As Italo Calvino once wrote, “A […]
on the birthdate of the steelborn | Dess Balota
“The poet’s precise measures cut. She minced her sharp poetics to powerful consumable bites. Her poems are delicious and multi-layered white onions, bringing the right amount of flavor and inviting the readers to inhale more aromatic textures. When peeling and uncovering the layers, her poetic language burns the eyes of the reader’s mind, stirring questions […]
SUWA: Labing Masaarong Bag-ong Magsusulat Sa Bisaya (2005-2015)
Kining hugpong naglaom nga dili na gyod matagamtaman sa atong literatura ang hulaw sa pangisip ug pagbati. Hinaot mabusog ug matimgas ta sa lunhawng gugma nga gidalit kanato sa mga YBW sa Bisaya alang sa panulat. Padayon!
— Marjorie Evasco
Mga Tipaka Sa Napusgay nga Bituon | Michael S. Florentino
Full tilt, almost automatist loops of the concrete and the abstract, but always have the human heart, in its infinite permutations, as the locus in these poems. Even strangely is how it stays recognisable even as the language whips up the elements into convulsive, hypnotic exquisite corpse games. To tweak the famed quote: What is essential is, indeed, visible to the human heart
MUDDAS: Mga Hubad Sa Balak ni Anthony Tan | Gratian Paul Tidor
Ang mga balak ni Anthony L. Tan dugay nang nagdani sa mga magbabasa sa Iningles nga moduaw ug mopuyo bisan kadiyot lang didto sa Muddas, usa ka matahom ug kahibulongang dapit nga mohatag og tumang kalinaw ug kahilom sa balatian. Karon, niining hugpong nga hinubad-balak gikan sa hanas nga dagang ni Gratian Paul Tidor, hingpit nga matagamtaman sa mga magbabasa sa Binisaya ang katahom ning dapita.