LITERATURE & JOURNALISM
Alcantara, Pelagio. ILOCANO HARVEST. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1988. 124 p.
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A collection of short stories by Ilocano writers. The selections were either originally written in English or translated from Ilocano.
Alegre, Edilberto N. & Fernandez, Doreen G. WRITERS & THEIR MILIEU, PARTS I & II. Philippines: De La Salle University Press. Second edition 1993. 333 p.
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PART I $18.00; PART II $22.00
Part I is an oral history of the first generation writers in English.
Part II is about the second generation. Each chapter focuses on a different author, including: Bienvenido Santos, Jose Garcia Villa, Angela Manalang Gloria, Emilio Aguilar Cruz, N.V.M. Gonzales and many others
Almario, Virgilio, et al. BUMASA AT LUMAYA: A SOURCEBOOK ON CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN THE PHILIPPINES. Pasig, Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1994.161 p.; illustrated.
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The first book of its kind in the Philippines, this collection of articles reflects the various sectors involved in the writing, illustrating, publishing, marketing and promotion of childrens literature.
Bascom, Tim. SQUATTERS RITES. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1990. 100 p.
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The author, raised in small town USA and East Africa, lived with a family of squatters in the Philippines for six months in 1983. This experience provided the seed for this novel about the lives of the Filipino poor.
Bautista, Cirilo F. BREAKING SIGNS. Manila: De La Salle University Press,1990. 70 p.
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Lectures on literature and semiotics by Cirilo Bautista as Writer-in-Residence of De La Salle University.
Bautista, Cirilo F. STORIES. Metro Manila: De La Salle University Press, 1990. 104 p
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A collection of the poets first short stories, written as a diversion between poetry projects. Some of the selections have won literary awards.
Bayot, David Jonathan Y, Ed.. THE ALFREDO E. LITIATCO LECTURES OF ISAGANI R. CRUZ. Malate, Manila: De La Salle University Press,1996. 313 p.
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A portrait of Isagani R. Cruz.
Bragado, Jose. CONGRESSMAN PITONG. Quezon City; Filipino Publishing, 1989. 302 p.
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A novel about the works of Agapito Aliwa as a member of the House of Representatives during the Marcos years.
Brainard, Cecilia Manguerra. ACAPULCO AT SUNSET AND OTHER STORIES. Pasig, Manila: New Day, 1995. 157 p.
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A collection of writings after WOMAN WITH HORNS publishing.
Brainard, Cecilia Manguerra. SONG OF YVONNE. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1991.
186 p. Softcover $10.75This is the first novel by Cecilia M. Brainard. It is the story of a girl and her experiences through the WWII era.
Brainard, Cecilia Manguerra. WOMAN WITH HORNS AND OTHER STORIES. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1987. 95 p.
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...A gifted writer able to draw from both historical and contemporary sources.... especially impressive is the way she jumps into a story, and within three or four lines, sets the time, mood, and pace of a story... Russel Leong, editor of Amerasia Journal, UCLA.
Bulosan, Carlos. ALL THE CONSPIRATORS. Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1998. 159 p. Includes Appendices.
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A novelle, published for the first time, by the original spokesperson for Filipinos in the U.S.
Bulosan, Carlos. SELECTED WORKS & LETTERS. Edited by Epifanio San Juan, Jr., and Ninotchka Rosca. Honolulu: Friends of the Filipino People, 1982. 83 p.
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A collection of Carlos Bulosans writings.Bulosan, Carlos. THE PHILIPPINES IS IN THE HEART. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1978. 192 p.
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This book marks the first time Bulosans original works are appearing in his country of origin. Born in Pangasinan, Bulosan left the Philippines in 1931 when he was 17. The stories in this collection show that he never left the Philippines in spirit.
Castillo, Erwin E. THE FIREWALKERS. Metro Manilla: Anvil Publishing, 1992. 152 p.
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In this long awaited novel, Erwin Castillo returns to mythic Cavite -- the poignant highlands he first described as a teenage poet in the 60s. Now he adds growing maturity in this stirring evocation of a vanished world familiar as today.
Cruz, Gemma Guerrero. SENTIMIENTO. Pasig, Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1995; 288 p.
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Sentimiento is about feminine sentiment, perception, feeling, emotion, sensation, resentment, grief, sorrow, pain, judgement, concern...all rolled into one bolt of sentimiento.--Nieves B. Epistola Note: Written in both English & Tagalog]
Cruz, Isagani R. & Bayot, David Jonathan , Eds. READING CIRILO F. BAUTISTA. Manila: De La Salle University Press, 1995. 381 p.
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A series of essays on the many writings of Cirilo F. Bautisa.
Cruz, Isagani (ed). LOVE LETTERS OF THE FIFTIES. Manila: Bookmark Inc., 1990; 141 p.
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Kislap magazines Love Letters Contest of 1953 was an unprecedented hit, attracting over 4,000 entries. This collection offers a glimpse of love and life in the fifties.
Romana-Cruz, Neni. SUNDAYS OF OUR LIVES. Pasig, Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1995. 258 p.
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A collection of articles that leads the reader into the everyday --and Sunday-- adventures of a middle-class wife and mother.
Cuyugan, Tina. FORBIDDEN FRUIT. Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1992. 112 p.
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This book is a landmark anthology of erotic fiction and poetry by some of the best contemporary Filipino writers.
Dalisay, Jose Y. Jr. PENMANSHIP AND OTHER STORIES. Cacho Publishing, 1995. 157 p.
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Dalisays third collection of short stories includes the short novel, Voyager. These stories deal largely with men and women and the ebb of power--often mistaken for love -- that pass between them.
Daroy, E. Vallodo. HAZARDS OF MEMORY. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1992. 146 p.
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Travails and triumphs of a Pinoy emigrant in the U.S.
Daza, Julie Yap. ETIQUETTE FOR MISTRESSES...AND WHAT WIVES CAN LEARN FROM THEM. Metro Manila: National Bookstores, 1994. 249 p.
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OUT OF STOCK; IN PRINT?A survival manual for the game of love. This book lifts a corner of the veil that hides the secret society of mistresses. Here are their stories and their mistakes, passed on as helpful tips to aspiring members of the sorority. Wives beware!
Jimenez-David, Rina. WOMAN AT LARGE. Pasig, Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1994. 258 p.
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A collection of articles from the authors daily column in the PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER. Described as the thinking housewifes every woman, Ms. Jimenez-David covers issues only women can fully understand.
Deriada, Leoncio P. THE WEEK OF THE WHALES AND OTHER STORIES. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1994. 134 p.
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Six of the twelve short stories in this collection were written by the author at his wifes deathbed. The Week of the Whales was a 1990 Philppine Graphic short story contest winner.
Enriques, Antonio. THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. Quezon City: Giraffe Books, 1994. 184 p.
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The author has won the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award in Literature several times, once for his novel SUBANOS. He hopes to submit this novel -- THE LIVING AND THE DEAD -- to the Palanca competition.
Enriquez, Mig Alvarez, THREE PHILIPPINE ETHNIC HERO PLAYS. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1991. 145 p
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All three plays are Palanca Prize winners: Princess Urduja, Lapu-Lapu of Mactan, and Cachil Kudarat. The author explores his anti-colonialist theme by using the language left by the colonizers.
Cordero-Fernando, Gilda. BUTCHER BAKER CANDLESTICK MAKER. Manila; Beniypayo Press, 1962. 196 p.
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Although working with a borrowed language (English) at a time when American fiction influenced the Philippine literary scene, the author was able to capture local tone and texture.
Cordero-Fernando, Gilda. STORY COLLECTION. Pasig, Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1994; 276 p.
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The short fiction represented in this collection are the best stories written by the author from 1952 to 1970, having previously appeared in earlier publications. The author was a Patnubay ng Sining Awardee for literature in 1993, and CCP Gawad awardee for literature and publishing in 1994.
Gamalinda, Eric. THE EMPIRE OF MEMORY. Pasig, Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1992.< 265 p.
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The novel opens with the Beatles being chased out of Manila International Airport by angry Marcos [paid] mobs and meanders through the New Society via the eyes and pens of two Marcos speech writers/censors, who were commissioned to ghost write the Presidents history of the Philippines. Cited in CHARLIE CHAN IS DEAD as a good read. [OUT OF STOCK; OUT OF PRINT]Garcia, J. and Danton Remoto. LALAD: ANTHOLOGY OF PHILIPPINE GAY WRITING. Pasig, Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1994. 295 p. Softcover $15.00The first book to gather the various voices of the gay experience in the country today, through poems, essays, short fiction, and plays in Filipino and English.Gonzales, N.V.M. A SEASON OF GRACE. Makati, Metro Manila: Bookmark, 1992. 239 p. Newsprint $7.80Originally published in 1954 and reissued in 1992 as part of Bookmarks Filipino Literary Classics. Richard R. Guzman in The Virginia Quarterly Review describes this book as the authors masterpiece and ...surely one of the four or five most beautiful novels to have come from the Third World.Gonzalez, N.V.M. CHILDREN OF THE ASH COVERED LOAM. Makati, Metro Manila: Bookmark, 1992. 152 p.Newsprint $6.00Originally published in 1951 and reissued as part of Bookmarks Filipino Literary Classics in 1992, this is a collection of stories which previously appeared in various publications in the Philippines, USA and England.Gonzales, N.V.M. THE BAMBOO DANCERS. Makati, Metro Manila: Bookmark, 1993. 358 p. Newsprint $11.00Recipient of two Republic Cultural Heritage Awards and of the Rizal Pro-Patria Award (1961). Originally published in 1959, and reissued in 1993 as part of Bookmarks Filipino Literary Classics.Guerrero, Amadis Ma. TRAVELERS CHOICE FROM NORTH TO SOUTH. Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1994. Illustrations and photographs. Softcover $15.00Travel articles published in various newspapers, the author provides fresh insight on popular destinations in the Philippines. He includes unusual information or anecdotes about each place.Gumil Metro Manila & Gumil Filipinas (Eds). LINGKA. Metro Manila: MG Reprographics, 1994. 287 p. Softcover. This anthology includes the short stories, poetry, and essays of award-winning Ilokano writers from Metro Manila, with varies themes such as abortion, rebellion, military abuses, mothers love and many more.Hagedorn, Jessica. THE GANGSTER OF LOVE. United States of America: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston New York, 1996. 311 p. Hard cover. $8.70Compelling story, by the author of DOGEATERS; Ms. Hagedorn continues to illuminate the intersection where American pop culture and local Filipino tradition mix.Hidalgo, Cristina Pantoja. THE PATH OF THE HEART. Pasig, Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1994. 102 p. Softcover $8.00This is the authors fifth collection of travel essays and autobiographical sketches. Ophelia Dimalanta in the National Book Review notes that everywhere she goes, her Filipino-ness always surfaces, in pain, pathos or pride...Hidalgo, Cristina Pantoja. WHERE ONLY THE MOON RAGES. Pasig, Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1994. 141 p. S. C. $15.00A collection of nine enchanting tales.Joaquin, Nick. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS FILIPINO (AN ELEGY IN THREE SCENES). Manila: MCS Enterprises, 1966. 116 p. Softcover $6.60Francisco Arcellana says that it ...remains the most adequate formulation in the artistic form of the authors major single preoccupation. This contains the original uncut version.Joaquin, Nick. PROSE AND POEMS. Makati, Metro Manila: Bookmark, 1991. 475 p. Newsprint $12.20A collection of poems and stories written with rare distinction. Most of the themes in the stories are universal ones of good and evil, time and eternity, past and present, love and its absence, freedom and fate. A must read.--Bookmark Trade List 1993. A Filipino Literary Classic.Joaquin, Nick. THE WOMAN WHO HAD TWO NAVELS. Pasig, Metro Manila: Bookmark, 1991. 336 p. Newsprint $9.00The first Filipino novel in English to win the Stonehill Annual Fellowship Award in 1960. A major contribution to Philippine literature.--Bookmark Trade List 1993. A Filipino Literary Classic.Jose, F. Sionil THE PRETENDERS. Manila: Solidaridad Publishing House. 8th edition 1997. 188 p. Softcover $12.00The story of Antonio Samson is the story of many Filipinos who find themselves lost and betrayed with nowhere to run to.Jose, F. Sionil TREE. Manila: Solidaridad Publishing House. 4th Edition 1997. 135 p. Softcover. $12.00The story of a boy growing up in a small Ilocano town. Winner of the 1980 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Literature.Maglipon, Jo-Ann Q. PRIMED. Pasig, Metro Manila: Anvil Publishers, 1993. 249 p. Illustrations. Softcover $25.00The author came of age during the Martial Law days inventing ways of breaking through the media repression and censorship. The book is collection of articles, she has written between 1972 -- 1984. What Maglipon offers us is advocacy reporting at its best.--Jose F. LacabaCENTURY OF DREAMS MANOA. v. 9, n.2 (Winter 1997) Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press., 1997. 195 p. Softcover.. $ 17.00New Writing from America, The Pacific, and Asia.Maramba, Asuncion David (ed) PHILIPPINE CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE IN ENGLISH AND FILIPINO. Makati, Metro Manila: Bookmark, 1993. 519 p. (reprinted with corrections from the 6th ed.) Newsprint $9.20This anthology is a collection of the best published works by Filipino writers. This book has been the most enduring textbook in the Philippines (since 1962). This 6th edition includes poetry and essays culled from the alternative press.Montes, Timothy R. THE BLACK MEN AND OTHER STORIES. Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1994. 126 P. Softcover. $6.50A collection of nine short stories. Part of the Contempoary Philippine Fiction Series.Nimmo, H. Arlo. THE SONGS OF SALANDA AND OTHER STORIES OF SULU. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1994. 237 p. Softcover $12.70The author lives in San Francisco and is a professor of anthropology at California State University. In the 1960s, he spent two years in Sulu Islands. The stories in the book are composites of people, places and events he has encountered, and are personal explorations of his experiences in Sulu.Nolasco, Domingo . ELEVEN ONE-ACT PLAYS. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1991. 169 p. Softcover $9.80A collection of one-act plays which can easily be staged with minimal use of scenery and costume. Ocampo, Ambeth R. MABINIS GHOST. Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1995. 227 p. Hardcover. $15.00A collection of newspaper articles, the author has given life to the dry bones of the past.Ocampo, Ambeth R. MAKAMISA: Pasig, Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1992. 172 p. Bibliography. Appendix. Glossary. Softcover. $12.50The searh for Rizals third novel. Makamisa brings forward a new Rizal work for students and their families, historians and scholars to enjoy..Ong, Charlson. CONVERSION AND OTHER FICTIONS. Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1996. 103 p. Softcover $6.50Charlson Ong has won prizes for his short fiction stories. This is his thrid book.Ong, Charlson. WOMAN OF AM-KAW AND OTHER STORIES. Pasig, Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1992. 126 p.Softcover $13.00A collection of short stories, with settings both in Manila and China, by the Palanca Memorial Award winning author. Editing could be tighter in some stories (typos, etc.), but the author holds your attention.Hamilton-Paterson, James. GHOSTS OF MANILA. Auckland, New Zealand: Vintage, 1995. 279 p. Softcover $ 8.70.This distinctive and compulsive novel dissects Manila, perhaps the worlds most violent city. Has the intensity of a thriller, the precision of a documentary, and the authority of great fiction. Quiros, Conradode. DANCES OF THE DUNCES. Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1991. 232 p. Softcover $ 10.50It is a collection of his essays that have appeared under the column Theres the Rub. It is santirical, lyrical, analytical, angry, witty and gritty.Rizal, Dr. Jose. MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS. Philippines: National Historical Institute. Second Edition 1992. 314 p. Softcover. $ 10.00A collection of writings by the national hero, Jose Rizal. Rizal, Jose. NOLI ME TANGERE. Translated by Soledad Lacson-Locsin. Metro Manila: Bookmark, 1996. 566 p. Softcover. $9.60Having a shattering impact on Philippine society, this novel and one other by national hero, Jose Rizal, led to his execution in 1896. The novel is a satire on the last years of the Spanish colonial regime in the Philippines.Rizal, Jose. EL FILIBUSTERISMO. Translated by Leon Ma Guerrero Manila: Guerrero Publishing, 1996. 253 p. Softcover. $ 11.00The sequel to the authors classic, Noli Me Tangere. According to the translator, ...it is more than a political novel. It is a romantic, witty, sometimes sotirical portrait of a colonial society at the end of the nineteenth century.Rizal, Jose. EL FILIBUSTERISMO. Translated by Soledad Lacson-Locsin. Metro Manila: Bookmark, 1997. 448 p. SC. $9.60The sequel to the authors classic, Noli Me Tangere. According to the translator, ...it is more than a political novel. It is a romantic, witty, sometimes satirical portrait of a colonial society at the end of the nineteenth century.Rotor, A.B. THE MEN WHO PLAY GOD: A COLLECTION OF TEN STORIES. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1993. 147 p. Softcover $9.20The ten stories in this book are about doctors, written by a doctor who also is a musician, an authority on orchids, and a student of humanity, among other talents.Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. UNCOVERING THE BEAT: THE REAL WORLD GUIDE TO REPORTING ON GOVERNMENT. Philippines: Center for Investigative Journalism. 1997. 322 p. Softcover $ 11.00A guide to the huge, frustrating complex institutions whose policies and actions have an impact on our lives. San Juan Jr., E. SMILE OF THE MEDUSA. Metro Manila: Anvil Publishings, 1994. 139 p. Softcover $11.00Eleven selected works of fiction.Sato, Kazuo. THE RISE OF SUNS AND VOICES. Manilla: De La Salle university Press, 1990. 56 p. Softcover $ 7.00No. 3 in the De La Salle University Studies Program Monograph series. Thie is a brief study of Japanese literature.Santos, Bienvenido. THE DAY THE DANCERS CAME. Makati, Metro Manila: Bookmark, 1991. 212 p. Newsprint SC $6.60This collection of short stories opens with the title story, which won the Philippines Free Press short story contest in 1966. First published in 1967, the collection was re-issued by Bookmark in 1991 as part of the Filipino Literary Classic series.Santos, Bienvenido. BROTHER MY BROTHER. Makati, Metro Manila: Bookmark, 1991. 212 p. Newsprint. SC $8.60A collection of stories about the Filipino, in his own country--where Tondo, Manila and Albay provide the setting and shape the mood of the stories. First published in 1960, the book was reissued by Bookmark in 1991 as part of the Filipino Literary Classics series.Santos, Bienvenido. THE PRAYING MAN. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1987. 171 p. Softcover $8.20A novel that looks at the dramatic possibilities of the ideas, dwelling in the same man, both on the need to pray and the tendency to prey on others.Santos, Bienvenido. WHAT THE HELL FOR YOU LEFT YOUR HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1987. 195 p. Softcover $12.50David Tolosa journeys to San Francisco ostensibly to help a group of wealthy Filipino doctors publish a Filipino magazine. His other motive is to find a long lost father. Captures familiar characters who inhabit any typical Filipino community in a US city.Santos, Bienvenido. YOU LOVELY PEOPLE. Makati, Metro Manila: Bookmark, 1991. 241 p. Newsprint $6.60The book was written when the author was a student in the US during WW II. His first book, Mr. Santos has skillfully captured the essence of those years. First published in 1955, it was reissued by Bookmark in 1991 as part of its Filipino Literary Classics series.Tiempo, Eldiberto K. CRACKED MIRROR. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1984. 219 p. Softcover. $8.20A novel by the 1983 recipient of the Ferdinand E. Marcos medallion for literature. His other works include Cry Slaughter, To Be Free and More Than Conquerors.Kalaw-Tirol, Lorna ed. COMING TO TERMS. Pasig, Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1994. 204 p. Softcover $12.50A collection of writings on midlife by 15 women. Includes a brief biography of each writer.de Ungria, Ricardo M. CATFISH ARRIVING IN LITTLE SCHOOLS. Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1996. 279 p. Softcover $ 8.50Fiction by new writers. This is a collection of sensate stories sourced mainly in the lollow pit of the belly where a great hunger rages and a love for words takes root.Uranza, Azucena Grajo. BAMBOO IN THE WIND. Manila: Vera-Reyes, Inc., 1990. 309 p. Newsprint $7.40A novel set in Manila in the last beleaguered months before the declaration of martial law ... [it] tells of the last desperate efforts of a people fighting to stave off disaster ... the arrests, torture, ... that followed Proclamation 1081. The book won the 1990 Palanca Award for the Novel.Veloso, Vicky. CONVERSATIONS FOR A RAINY DAY. San Francisco: Sulu Books, 1992. 88p. Softcover $ 11.95A collection of stories about living in the Philippines.Women Writers in Media Now. FILIPINA 1. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1984. 149 p. Softcover $9.50An anthology exclusively of women poets, playwrights and short story writers reflecting contemporary concerns. Some writers display ease in bilingualism: shifting from English to Filipino and back.Yuson, Alfred. THE MUSIC CHILD AND OTHER STORIES. Pasig, Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1991. 159 p. SC $9.00A compilation of stories which appeared in other publications. A few of the stories have won awards. The title story appears in the 1992 issue of Manoa, A Pacific Journal of International Writing published by UH Manoa.Zafra, Jessica. TWISTED. Pasig, Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1995. 256 p. Softcover. $18.50A collection of articles that appear in the daily Today. She reports on the horrors of urban living, recounts the torments of mountain climbing, alternately vilifies and rhapsodizes on the male of the species, contemplates life in a parallel universe and awaits the end of the world.Zafra, Jessica. WOMANAGERIE AND OTHER TALES FROM THE FRONT. Pasig, Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1995. 181 p. Softcover. $14.25Another collection by the witty author that appeared in Women Today magazine.
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