Coming home to the island poems - Yandug, Arlene J. (Cagayan de Oro, Philippines Xavier University Press, 2022)
Going back to the island -- June -- Your story begins when you first answered to the names given to you -- The history of her tongue -- Monsoon poems -- Flores de Mayo without rains -- Sayre highways, 1990s -- Lola -- Slash-and-burn, 1907 -- 19th century reconfigured -- Kudrat, upon hearing about the fortification of Himologan, the village that refused to pay him taxes -- Dugso performed on stage -- Bus ride, 1990s -- Finding the 58th body -- Report from the field -- Epitaph on a hilltop -- Something was lost in the house -- Is she nice -- Shariya's christening -- February in many voices -- The river speaks -- El padre capitan, 1624 -- Ebony tree, Camiguin, 1954 -- Dry spell, 1901 -- Let them speak -- The rice pot speaks -- What the news doesn't say -- For Herminia, 1982 -- Letter from sun country, 1903 -- El Niño -- Hummingbird and skylark -- A day around the globe -- Adhan -- Huluga -- Patriarch -- The saddest month -- Blue petals -- It is in the smallest of gestures -- Like souls meeting -- The secret is in the pause -- Souldream -- Aporia -- Hills in Malaybalay: a three-day retreat -- Names -- Stay -- The sky spirals in the evening like -- a borderless blossom (or If snail could speak) -- The place to go to this April -- Things heal in the sunshine -- In the beginning -- Ordinary day.
Keywords: Philippine poetry (English) .