Download or read book Malagilion written by Santiago B. Villafania and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The publication of Malagilion: Sonnets tan Villanelles by Santiago B. Villafania should be a source of rejoicing for readers of regional literatures. This second book by Pangasinan's leading poet today is impressive in both form and substance. Villafania has created 300 sonnets and 50 villanelles in his own language that attempt to reflect the primacy of native culture and return the poet to the central stage of social life."– A Boost to Pangasinan Literature from Breaking Signs by Cirilo F. Bautista, poet, fiction writer, painter and educator“Villafania is not only a visionary poet, he is a linguistic philosopher who codifies the origin of language and culture, dissects the myths and the common beliefs of the people against the urban legends, juxtaposes the literary tradition against the modern influences by dialectically infusing them in his poetic revelation of truth.”– Danny C. Sillada, from Poetic Revelation in Language and Culturesurrealist painter, poet, philosopher, musician, performance artist & critic

Download or read book Bonsaic Verses written by Santiago B. Villafania and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Santiago Villafania writes a poised, sensual poetry (poised and sensual may almost seem like contradictions, but his art lies in their effortless combination). He is never boring or predictable, thanks to his diverse background, his discriminating ear, his impeccable good taste--which, on occasion, he rightly flouts, due to a poetic exigency or imperative urgency." - Ute Margaret Saine, poet, translator, editor

Download or read book Ghazalia written by Santiago B. Villafania and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: a collection of ghazals in Pangasinan language.

Download or read book As I Tango written by Santiago B. Villafania and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Santiago Villafania is a searcher with a seemingly insatiable curiosity and endurance. His quest has brought him to explore world poetry from points East and West. He is no stranger to sophisticated verse forms such the Sapphic strophe nor to the diverse permutations of the Japanese haiku. But he is not a formalist, he has daringly explored Asian and Western cultures in a very personal way and writes his mind with a daring, invigorating, aesthetically pleasing ease. In his poetry, Villafania displays not only a breadth, but it feels very much like a breath of fresh air. He has the voice of a poet to be reckoned with." - Ute Margaret Saine, poet, translator, editor "He is not afraid of short or long poems; neither is he daunted by a pack of images that at first glance appear disjointed only to congeal into a gestalt that concretizes his theme. Love poems are among the most difficult to write, but Villafania's poetic mainstay are his expressions of l'amour and is quite comfortable with their emotive persuasion without being maudlin." - Albert B. Casuga, Philippines-born Canadian writer

Download or read book Pinabli Other Poems written by Santiago Villafania and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pinabli and Other Poems consists of over 200 anlongs (poems), some of these poems in English translated into Spanish, a few haikus and translations of poems by writers who had inspired him like Jose Garcia Villa and e.e. cummings. Most deal with love, which he describes in a language full of imagery and lyricism. Many believe that the Pangasinan language would have died if it weren't for the efforts of Villafania and his colleagues who with great dedication worked against all odds to ensure revival of the language after the long hiatus for Pangasinan literature that lasted for 30 years (1960-90)."Rarely, if ever, has Pangasinan poetry sounded so fierce and tender, sacred and earthy. Santiago Villafania's poetry illuminates the Pangasinan soul, language, culture and identity. His book Pinabli and Other Poems is both delicate and bold; a real contribution to our national literature." -F. Sionil Jos�, National Artist for Literature

Download or read book Saray Anlong Nen Kookaburra written by Alma Nepascua and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here be poems... the lyrical songs and distinctive laughter of a Kookaburra.Alma Ariola-Nepascua is one of the leading contemporary women poets in Pangasinan today. Her first poetry collection, Saray Anlong nen Kookaburra, include her award-winning poems as well as children's poems in Pangasinan language." --Santiago B. Villafania, author of Malagilion: Sonnets tan Villanelles and Pinabli & Other Poems

Download or read book Ultraviolins written by Khavn De la Cruz and published by UP Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Breaking Signs written by Cirilo F. Bautista and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Laughter of My Father written by Carlos Bulosan and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich man’s children ate their good food and grew thinner and more peaked. The Bulosans, next door, went on eating their poor and meagre food, laughed, and grew fat. So the rich man sued Father Bulosan for stealing the spirit of his food. And Father paid him in his own coin, while the laughter of the Bulosans and the judge drove the rich man’s family out of the courtroom. The Bulosans lived in Binalonan, in the Philippine province of Pangasinan. But the episodes of Father’s history that his son Carlos retells belong to universal and timeless comedy. No one can remain unmoved by Father’s excursions into politics, cock-fighting, violin-playing, or the concoction of love-potions. Twenty-four such stories make up the rich and funny collection called The Laughter of My Father. “In the winter of 1939, when I was out of work, I went to San Pedro, California, and stood in the rain for hours with hundreds of men and women hoping to get a place at the fish canneries. To forget the monotony of waiting, I started to write the title story. It was finished when I reached the gate, but the cold hours that followed made me forget many things. “In November, 1942, when there was too much pain and tragedy in the world, I found the story in my hat. I sent it to The New Yorker, a magazine I had not read before, and in three weeks a letter came. ‘Tell us some more about the Filipinos,’ it said. I said, ‘Yes, sir.’ “I wrote about everything that I could remember about my town Binalonan, in the province of Pangasinan. I received letters from my countrymen telling me that I wrote about them and their towns. It came to me that in writing the story of my town, I was actually depicting the life of the peasantry in the Philippines. “These stories and 18 others are now gathered in this volume. For the first time the Filipino people are depicted as human beings. I hope you will enjoy reading about them.”—Carlos Bulosan

Download or read book The Cry and the Dedication written by Carlos Bulosan and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This previously unpublished novel by the author of America Is in the Heart dramatizes the resourcefulness, cunning, and pain of the Filipino peasants' struggle against a heritage of colonization, first by Spain and later by the United States. Set during the political upheavals of the 1940s and 1950s, seven underground rebels-old and young, male and female, intellectual and peasant-set off across the Philippine countryside fueled by their outrage over continued U.S. domination. They combat both internal foes from their past memories and experiences and visible enemies who view their clandestine work as a destructive force of communism. As they confront danger and face physical and emotional sacrifices along the way, their sense of mission conveys a profound vision of democracy and self-determination.Bulosan's exceptional narrative, at once an allegorical and a psychological critique of the West's racism and delusion of supremacy, portrays an armed rebellion that can represent many Third World peoples. Literary and political, Bulosan's work embodies his personal dream of equality and freedom. When asked what impelled him to write, Bulosan replied, "To give literate voices to the voiceless...to translate the desires and aspirations of the whole Filipino people in the Philippines and abroad in terms relevant to contemporary history." Author note: Born in 1911 in the Philippines to a peasant family, Carlos Bulosan was one of the first wave of Filipino immigrants to come to the United States in the 1930s. After several arduous years as a farmworker in California, Bulosan became involved with radical intellectuals and started editing the workers' magazine The New Tide.While hospitalized for three years for tuberculosis and kidney problems, Bulosan began writing poetry and short stories. Despite having little formal education, he saw his talent for writing as a means to give a voice to Filipino struggles, both in the Philippines and in the United States. He went on to publish three volumes of poetry, a best-selling collection of stories, The Laughter of My Father, and America Is in the Heart, the much acclaimed chronicle based on his family's battle to overcome poverty, violence, and racism in the United States. The Cry and the Dedication carries on Bulosan's passionate, satirical style. >P>E. San Juan, Jr. is Fellow of the Center for the Humanities and Visiting Professor of English, Wesleyan University, and Director of the Philippines Cultural Studies Center. He was recently chair of the Department of Comparative American Cultures, Washington University, and Professor of Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He received the 1999 Centennial Award for Literature from the Philippines Cultural Center. His most recent books are Beyond Postcolonial Theory, From Exile to Diaspora, After Postcolonialism, and Racism and Cultural Studies.

Download or read book Under the Storm written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rice in the Seven Arts written by Paul B. Zafaralla and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pangasinan Dictionary written by Richard A. Benton and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philippines series of the PALI Language Texts, under the general editorship of Howard P. McKaughan, consists of lesson textbooks, grammars, and dictionaries for seven major Filipino languages.

Download or read book Spoken Pangasinan written by Richard A. Benton and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philippines series of the PALI Language Texts, under the general editorship of Howard P. McKaughan, consists of lesson textbooks, grammars, and dictionaries for seven major Filipino languages.

Download or read book Pangasinan Reference Grammar written by Richard A. Benton and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philippine series of the PALI Language Texts, under the general editorship of Howard P. McKaughan, consists of lesson textbooks, grammars, and dictionaries for seven major Filipino languages.

Download or read book Dusk written by F. Sionil José and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Dusk (originally published in the Philippines as Po-on), F. Sionil Jose begins his five-novel Rosales Saga, which the poet and critic Ricaredo Demetillo called "the first great Filipino novels written in English." Set in the 1880s, Dusk records the exile of a tenant family from its village and the new life it attempts to make in the small town of Rosales. Here commences the epic tale of a family unwillingly thrown into the turmoil of history. But this is more than a historical novel; it is also the eternal story of man's tortured search for true faith and the larger meaning of existence. Jose has achieved a fiction of extraordinary scope and passion, a book as meaningful to Philippine literature as One Hundred Years of Solitude is to Latin American literature. "The foremost Filipino novelist in English, his novels deserve a much wider readership than the Philippines can offer."--Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books "Tolstoy himself, not to mention Italo Svevo, would envy the author of this story."--Chicago Tribune