Waiting for Mariang Makiling: Essays in Philippine Cultural History Resil B. Mojares
The book is an engaging exploration of Philippine cultural history. The collection of essays rewards the reader with the richness and originality of its insights.
Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2002
Waiting for the Exterminator Fiedelito Cortes
Ah the uneasy peripatetic life of the poet! Strolling through the city or the country, past the exotic fauna of one and the exotic flora of the other, he is in love only with absent people. Walking in museums he wonders if he is transparent to others. He worries, promenading, about being politically correct, socially decorous and ecologically sound, and if such cargo of decency would sink him. In ballparks, making his way to the bleachers, he reacts to the weather and attests to the cathartic value of spectator sports.
Manila: Kalikasan Press, 1989
Waking Ice: Poems Ricardo M. De Ungria
The book records a father’s spirals of emotions as he tries to understand and weather his son’s addiction, attempts at recovery, and later self-destruction. In a sequence of chiseled poems addressed mostly to his son, the poet memorializes a wide range of complex emotions dealing with fatherhood, sonship, and loss, and uses a variety of poetic styles to chart the gamut of his experience. Here is language brought as woundingly close to real life and silence.
Pasig City: Anvil Publishing, 2000
Walong Dekada ng Makabagong Tulang Filipino Virgilio S. Almario
This book is an anthology of poems in Filipino written in the period 1900–1981. It divides those 80 years into three distinct periods— 1900–1932; 1932–1961; and 1961–1981. 1932 was chosen to highlight the importance of Jose Corazon de Jesus and his primacy during the period up to his death. 1961 was chosen to emphasize the significance of the publication of “Isang Dipang Langit” as the foundation of this middle period in the 20th century. For the third period, a new edition is needed to include the coming changes
: Philippine Education, 1981
Wandering Roots, 1978-1988 From the Hothouse, 1989-1990 Ma. Fatima Lim
The book includes the essay, “How to Read Ma. Fatima V. Lim,” by Isagani R. Cruz. In it he says: “To read Lim, you must clear a space in your consciousness for her. Leave your prosaic world for a moment, enter a world without fathers, fears, or boundaries, and spend Eternity in a Blakesia hour, reading, savoring, living each of her poems. You will, I guarantee, never come home to the unpoetic world again.”
Pasig City: Anvil Publishing, 1991
Wash: Only A Bookkeeper, A Biography of Washington Z. SyCip. Jose Y. Dalisay, Jr
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Quezon City: The SGV foundation, Inc. and AIM Scientific Rechearch Foundation, 2009
Water in the Ring of Fire: Folktales from the Asia-Pacific Edited by Carla M. Pacis
Designed by Felix Mago Miguel.
“All 18 member countries of the Asia-Pacific Economic Council (APEC) are linked by geography, each economy situated in the Ring of Fire. Each of these economies has a rich tradition of myths and folktales relating the different creation tales that define their cultural beliefs and traditions. Eighteen creation myths from APEC members are presented in a unique sequence retelling a unified tale of Creation—that of the Ring of Fire. Each folktale is retold in English by a Filipino writer and illustrated by a Filipino illustrator.”—Alfonso Corpus Bolipata, in the foreword
San Antonio, Zambales: Osnofla Books-CASA San Miguel, 1996
Watersheds Sheltering life. Grace Roxas Edited by Ces Rodriguez
Quezon City: Wide Angle Media Inc., 2010
Wealth within Your Reach Francisco J. Colayco
“This book is the first in a series that will explain the fundamental rules of wealth generation, as well as income and debt management. People need to be aware that they have to prepare for their personal and their family’s financial future. Achieving financial well-being is not an option. It is an obligation. I hope that in some way, this book will help to fulfill that obligation.”—Francisco Colayco, in the foreword
Metro Manila: Colayco Foundation for Education, 2004
What the Hell for You Left Your Heart in San Francisco: A Novel Bienvenido N. Santos
This is a novel about a Filipino writer who tries to work in the United States and to find his father who had left them when he was very young. He writes about significant events in his life in the city of San Francisco as he struggles to teach a course on the Philippines and to start a magazine for Filipinos in the United States.
Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1987
What the Water Said: Alon Poems Ronald Baytan, Ernesto V. Carandang, Isidro M. Cruz, Alice M. San-Cua, Vicente Garcia Groyon, Sid Gomez Hildawa, Shirley O. Lua, John Iremil E. Teodoro
“What the Water Said is a first collection of poetry by an inspired and inspiring community of writers who call themselves the Alon Collective. In many ways, the book is a testament of how a writing community is created and how each member brings a shared vision to fruition.”—Marjorie Evasco, in the introduction
Iloilo CIty: University of San Agustin, 2004
Whatever: A New Collection of Later Essays, 1987-2001 Carmen Guerrero Nakpil
“The essays in this book were chosen at random from a pile of more than 2,000 short pieces written over a period of 14 years, between 1987 and 2001. They first appeared in several Metro Manila dailies as editorial-page columns. The title, Whatever, is a reference to the millenial way of ending an argument. It is now the trendy equivalent of saying, all right, have it your way, but this is my take on the subject. The essays in the book are offered in that spirit.”—Carmen Guerrero Nakpil
White Elephants: Stories Angelo R. Lacuesta
“Once again, in this new collection, Angelo Lacuesta shows his mastery not only of language but also of the life it examines and conveys. As one writer to another, I appreciate how he takes his time to shape a story, and the varied cadences of his prose are a pleasure to follow. But best of all he writes with a maturity of feeling, a sureness of sensibility that eschews the easy sentiment and disembodied lyricism of those less committed to art and country.”—Jose Y. Dalisay Jr.
Pasig City: Anvil Publishing, 2005
White Love and Other Events in Filipino History Vicente L. Rafael
The book examines the period from the onset of U. S. colonialism in 1898 to the emergence of a Filipino diaspora in the 1990s. It treats, in a condensed and concise manner, clusters of historical detail and reflections that do not easily fit into a larger whole. The book also offers a view of nationalism as an unstable production, revealing how, under what circumstance, and with what effects the concept of the nation has been produced and deployed in the Philippines.
Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2000
White Turtle Merlinda Bobis
An anomalous kiss. A white turtle ferrying the dreams of the dead. A working siesta in a five-star hotel. A woman’s 12-meter hair trawling corpses from a river. Or a queue of longings in Darlinghurst. These enigmatic tales of chance and hope are among 23 stories set in the Philippines and Australia. Alternately mythic, wistful or quirky, Merlinda Bobis’s tales resonate with an original and confident storytelling voice.
Manila: De La Salle University Press, 1999
Why I Travel and Other Essays by Fourteen Women Edited by Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo, Erlinda Enriquez-Panlilio
The book features the accounts of highly accomplished and prominent women from diverse backgrounds. “This is why I travel, to find what I do not know, to feel the sheer joy of coming face to face with something I could not possibly have conceived,” says Gizela Gonzalez in the introduction.
Why the Piña Has a Hundred Eyes and Other Classic Philippine Folk Tales about Fruits Neni Sta. Romana Cruz Illustrated by Felix Mago Miguel
The book contains classic folk tales about the origins of native fruits such as the durian, banana, macopa, and coconut, among others.
Makati City: Bookmark, 1993
Wika sa Lipunang Pilipino Ligaya Tiamson-Rubin
“Ang librong ito ay kalipunan ng mga pag-aaral ni Ligaya Tiamson-Rubin sa larangan ng wika sa pangkalahatan at sa disiplinang Filipino sa partikular. Ang mga nilalaman ng antolohiyang ito ay mapapangkat sa mga sumusunod: wika, lipunan, at nasyonalismo; sitwasyong pangwika sa Angono at ang barayti ng Filipinong sinasalita rito; (gabay at prinsipyo sa) pagsasaling eklesiastik at pampanitikan; at pagtuturo ng wikang Filipino at ng Ibong Adarna. Mahalaga lamang na magkaroon ng sipi nito ang bawat Pilipinong nagmamahal sa Wikang Pambansa.”—Prof. Jesus Fer Ramos, U. P. College of Arts and Letters, Departamento ng Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas
Quezon City: Rex Book Store, 1991
Women of Tammuz Azucena Grajo-Uranza
“In the grand tradition of Rizal and Nick Joaquin, Azucena Grajo Uranza uses our troubled history as the matrix of her fiction. Women of Tammuz traces the convoluted lives of several Filipinos—mostly women—through the last halcyon days preceding World War II, on to the grim years of the Japanese Occupation. The story ends with the liberation of Manila. More than a novel on the war, this novel portrays evocatively the courage of ordinary Filipinos as they persevere through tragedy. A must read for those who despair, and those who don’t.”—F. Sionil Jose, National Artist
Makati City: Bookmark, 2004
Wordsmith with a Slingshot: The Gerry Gil Book Generoso Gil Jr.
“The bulk of the selections in this book are Manila Standard editorials, written while Generoso Gil Jr. was associate editor, from late 1989 to mid-1995. This period was the longest that Gerry stayed with a newspaper, and since he wrote the editorials virtually every day, it coincided with his largest body of work.”—Jaime S. Ong
Quezon City: Phoenix Publishing House, 1997
Working Women of Manila in the 19th Century Maria Luisa Camagay
The work documents the life of gainfully employed women in the 19th century. Seven occupations of women were studied, namely, the cigarreras (tobacco-factory workers), the matronas titulares (licensed midwives), the maestras (teachers), the criadas (female domestic workers), the tenderas and vendadoras (store owners and vendors), the costureras and bordadoras (seamstresses and embroiderers), and the mujeres publicas (prostitutes). With women often absent or marginalized in the pages of history, the study attempts to unravel through archival sources and other non-documentary sources like literature and iconography the life of these working women.
Quezon City: University of the Phillipines Press, 1995
Worship and Weave: Towards Filipino Liturgical Vestments Dom Martin de Jesus H. Gomez, OSB
Photography by George Tapan
In 1998, on the occasion of the centennial of Philippine Independence, the Ayala Museum and the Monastery of the Transfiguration in Bukidnon put up the Filipino Liturgical Vestments exhibition. It was a visual feast worth memorializing in another form that is no less inspiring, and Worship and Weave seeks to be that unique form. It is a work of careful liturgical devotion and caring cultural scholarship that shows us how our communal life of worship is intimately intertwined with indigenous elements that make our prayer truly ours, that make our praying truly us
Makati City: Ayala Foundation and Monastery of the Transfiguration, 2001
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Pasig City: Anvil Publishing, 2009
Writing Home: 19 Writers Remember Their Hometowns Edited by Ruel De Vera
This is an anthology of poems, essays, and stories of some of the best contemporary Filipino writers about their hometowns. It includes the works of Cesar Ruiz Aquino, Joey Ayala, Karina Bolasco, Carlos Cortes, Jose Dalisay Jr., Alex de los Santos, Doreen Fernandez, Luisa Igloria, Marne Kilates, Jose Lacaba, Jaime An Lim, Alfonso Mendoza, Clovis Nazareno, Bino Realuyo, John Silva, Auraeus Solito, Eileen Tabios, Anthony Tan, and Alfred Yuson.
Pasig City: Anvil Publishing, 2002
Writing the Nation Bienvenido Lumbera
The book gathers into a single volume scattered writings on Philippine art and culture by Bienvenido Lumbera. The cultural phenomena that generated comment and discussion—literary works, theatrical performances, films, conferences, book launches, etc.—have been viewed within a framework spelled out by the first two sections of the book: “Culture and Politics” and “Language and Culture.” Lumbera has always made culture and nationalism the advocacy of his teaching and writing, and in this book he elaborates on these intertwining themes.
Quezon City: University of the Phillipines Press, 2000