The Future Is a Country I Do Not Live In is available at Philippine Expressions Bookshop,, Amazon, and other retailers. “She maps this line of desolation from one continent to another…” It is a poetry teeming with images moist and melancholy, “ghosts frozen in the dead eye of memory.” The rough-grained world of the everyday and the slippery world of dreams are present, “surfacing in her dreams/ trailed by a lullaby of crickets nesting… in secret places.” This is an assured debut for a poet whose wise and wonderful voice deserves to be heard, loud and clear.” Riverrun is a rite-of-passage novel in the life of a young gay man growing up in a colorful and chaotic dictatorship. Burn It All Down by Nicolas DiDomizio Zigzags by Kamala Puligandla Riverrun by Danton Remoto Cam & Beau by Maria Cichosz All the Water Ive. Silt and silk, stone and star, a vast country and an archipelago “with too many names for islands.” People suffer and live in her poems violence and hope commingle here. Unlike a typical novel with memoir elements, Remoto uses evocative language to paint factual events and vivid description of places and people he encounters. “Many worlds collide in the poetry of Cynthia Buiza, but what remains with the reader are the worlds of the new country vis-a-vis the old homeland. In short, Riverrun is a tender, poignant and moving novel that offers a glimpse of everyday life in the Philippines.

Gratitude to the Albay Arts Foundation for hosting the event.Īdvance words from fellow Bicolano Danton Remoto, author of Riverrun, A Novel, Winner of the National Achievement Award for Poetry, Writers’ Union of the Philippines:

Danton Remoto (14 results) You searched for: Author: danton remoto. The Future Is a Country I Do Not Live In, a debut poetry collection by Cynthia Buiza, was successfully launched in Bicol, Philippines on December 3rd. Riverrun (Paperback) by Danton Remoto and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at . Prof Reyes critical essay on monstress and riverrun the two novels will be exploring are monstress lysley tenorio and riverrun danton remoto.

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