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This book is distributed by Temple University Press for the Asian-American Writers' Workshop. The Philippines, America's "showcase of democracy" and its only former colony in Asia, remains enigmatic to most Americans. What we know of this archipelago is very often condensed, filtered, or distorted by Western preconceptions and interpretations. Here, for the first time, are Filipino and Filipino-American writers telling their lives in their own words. Here are stories of passion and betrayal, home and exile, the politics of the self and a nation in search of itself. Here are poems of such power and beauty that can rank among the best in the world. In these pages the reader will find familiar figures the greedy Marcoses, teenage gangs, game shows, rock star clones as well as characters and themes of every stripe and hue, from gay youngsters checking out surfer jocks in Hawai' to Westernized girls coming out of convent school, from a searing recollection of gang rape to meditations on the spirit. Altogether, these works provide a deeper image of the Philippines and of Filipinos in America, as seen by some of the best writers from both sides of the world. Ultimately, it gives a unique and vivid perspective of America as well. Luis H. Francia is a poet, writer, and critic who has published two books of poetry. He edited the seminal "Brown River, White Ocean, An Anthology of Philippine Literature in English". He teaches Asian-American literature at Sarah Lawrence College. Eric Gamalinda is the author of five books of poetry and fiction. He has been widely published in the United States and the Philippines.
Contents
Myth, Memory, Myopia: Or, I May Be Brown But I Hear America Singin' Eric Gamalinda The Other Side of the American Coin Luis H. Francia Stories 1. The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor Bienviendo Santos 2. Crossing Over NVM Gonzales 3. A Man's Reward Is In Heaven F. Sionil Jose 4. Fortress in the Plaza Linda Ty-Casper 5. Something's Got to Give Bataan Faigao 6. Fugitive Colors Ninotchka Rosca 7. Sideshow Jessica Hagedorn 8. The End of Awkwardness Edgard Poma 9. Home Peter Bacho 10. Elvis of Manila Eric Gamalinda 11. Two Deaths Marianne Villanueva 12. Her Wild American Self M. Evelina Galang 13. Fredo Avila Gina Apostol 14. Night Sweats joel b. tan 15. States of Being Bino Realuyo 16. The Lowest Blue Flame Before Nothing Lara Stapleton 17. Rolling the R's R. Zamora Linmark 18. Jungle Manhood Michael Sandoval 19. Perished Fruit Maria Cecilia Aquino Aguilar Poems 20. Sunset and Evening Star All the Living Fear The Last Trip The Living Hour Carlos Bulosan 21. From a Window in an Old People's Home Edith L. Tiempo 22. Manhattan Rain Jacaranda Trees Carlos Angeles 23. Crossing 14th St. and Avenue ! Sunday with the Smiths Luis Cabalquinto 24. Dragon Rene J. Navarro 25. An Imaginary Letter to My Twin Sons Gemino H. Abad 26. Andy Warhol Speaks to His Two Filipina Maids Filipino in Frisco Alfred Yuson 27. America To a Friend in Autumn Simeon Dumdum 28. A Snail's Progress Catholics Anonymous Walls Luis H. Francia 29. A Philippine History Lesson They Do Not Think Much About Us in America War, Like Fever Alfrredo Navarro Salanga 30. I, in America Ruth Elynia S. Mabanglo 31. Autumn in Vermont Rene Estella Amper 32. My Worst Fear Once Upon A Seesaw With Charlie Chan Cyn. Zarco 33. I Remember Fermin 1930 Without Names Jeff Tagami 34. Fly-Over Country Rowena Torrevillas 35. Nightfall, Angeles City Airport Lounge, Manila Jaime Jacinto 36. Room for Time Passing Avatar at the Gas Station, Lower East Side Carillonneur Ricardo M. De Ungria 37. Manila Echo Pancho Lapuz 38. The Effect of Distance Till Death Francis Macansantos 39. Parallel Universe Eileen Tabios 40. American Beauty Roses The Book of Exile Maria Luisa Aguilar Carino 41. Her First Night Away English as a Second Language Letter to Home Fidelito Cortes 42. Casting Call The Resident Alien as Acrobat A Sestina Written in a Cold Land Fatima Lim-Wilson 43. Palm Sunday Washing Rice Carlos Bulosan J. Eugene Gloria 44. Beetle on a String Vince Gotera 45. Ang Tunay na Lalaki Stalks the Streets of New York Ang Tunay na Lalaki Realizes He's Below Average Nick Carbo 46. La Reina Maria Lourdes Antenorcruz 47. Password Dora Ty in Kansas Jeepneyfying Noel Abubo Mateo 48. Cadenza Jose Wendell P. Capili 49. Notes from a University Writing Group Emily Porcincula Lawsin 50. Home is a Temporary Thing America from a Plane Jody Blanco 51. Grace's Poems E. Eng Bueng 52. Hungry Drinking Milk in the Dark Kitchen Jessica Nepomunceno 53. Months Irene Suico Soriano 54. Burnings Ruel S. De Vera 55. Imaginings Lucille Rigor 56. Peggy Lee Elda Rotor 57. Plugging the Basketball Diaries You Bring Out the Writer I Me The Trick Regie Cabico 58. Tales Told By Eye Maximina Juson 59. Outside Lester Salvador 60. Nanay Lumen Patrick Pardo Notes on the Authors Acknowledgments
