1. DISIDENTE A BALIKAS Ken Dadduma Pay a Daniw
(Dissident Word and Other Poems) [An
anthology of 50 poems. The collection pushes the boundary of word and its
possibilities to account the ugly realities of today, of the Philippine
condition, and to search for meaning mediated by language, imagery, metaphor,
and the act of naming human experience. Some of the works problemize exile,
OFW-life, estrangement, and alienation, and the most absurd iniquitous
situation in the Philippines and elsewhere. A number of these poems worn
recognition from the Commission on the Filipino Language, Republic of the
Philippines.
2. EPISTOLARIO TI EXILO Ken Dadduma Pay a
Daniw [Letter of an Exile and Other Poems]
[Made up of 50 poems the nucleus of which are the poems that won first
prize at the Commission on the Filipino Language for Ilokano poetry, the collection
looks into the meat and substance of exile, migration, estrangement, homing,
and connects these issues to the question of returning, justice, democracy, and
confrontation with history.]
3. NAKEM: Salaysay iti Lengguahe, Kultura,
Literatura, ken Kritisimo (Nakem: Essays on Language, Culture, Literature, and
Criticism) [Made up of select essays
in Ilokano, the anthology looks at the issues on language and culture from the
framework of justice, democracy, and liberatory education. Includes critical
essays on Ilokano literature.]
4. DESAPERECIDO Ken Dadduma Pay a Sarita
(Desaperecido and Other Stories) [Stories about faith, religion,
revolution, exile, diaspora, migration, and homing. Also includes stories about
resistance, sorrow, redemption, grief in the context of an oppressive society
such as the Philippines.]
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