Brown River, White Ocean

by Francia, Luis H.

• ISBN13: 9780813519999
• ISBN10: 0813519993
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-08-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

A collection of shorts stories and poems represents a history of English language writing in the Phillippines from the turn of the century to the present

Table of Contents

Introduction: Mr. and Mrs. English Travel with a Rattan Suitcase
Dead Stars	p. 3
Zita	p. 13
Harvest	p. 20
Desire	p. 25
How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife	p. 29
The Romance of Magno Rubio	p. 34
The Day the Dancers Came	p. 44
Wedding Dance	p. 53
Tanabata's Wife	p. 58
The Grave Diggers	p. 64
The Fight	p. 69
The Beautiful Horse	p. 75
A Warm Hand	p. 79
The Wing of Madness (II)	p. 85
The Yellow Shawl
Magnificence	p. 91
The Summer Solstice	p. 95
Blue Blood of the Big Astana	p. 103
Tong	p. 110
Love in the Cornhusks	p. 119
Dada	p. 123
So	p. 133
People in the War	p. 138
Faith, Love, Time, and Dr. Lazaro	p. 146
Death in a Sawmill	p. 153
Rice Wine	p. 158
Pigpen	p. 168
The Death of Anacleto	p. 176
Ark	p. 186
Generations	p. 193
Unfinished Story	p. 200
Prodigal Season	p. 204
Day on the Farm	p. 223
The Spouse
Leaf Fall	p. 223
Portrait of an Unmarried Aunt	p. 223
Testament in Mid-Passage	p. 224
Hymn to a Man Who Failed	p. 224
Passage from Life
Sound of Falling Light
Portraits with Cities Falling
Stillness	p. 225
Dog in a Room You Just Left
Summer	p. 226
The Scare-Crow Christ
"In my desire to be Nude..."	p. 227
"Be beautiful, noble, like the antique ant,..."
"God said, 'I made a man...'"
"Were death not so involved..."
"Mostly are we mostless..."
"When, I, was, no, bigger, than, a, huge,..."
"Clean, like, iodoform, between, the tall,..."
The Anchored Angel
When I Look at Women	p. 230
Man of Earth
Paganly	p. 230
Good Friday in Manhattan	p. 230
Six P.M.	p. 231
Verde Yo Te Quiero Verde
Now Sound the Flutes
Song Between Wars
Bonsai	p. 232
Boats	p. 233
Gabu
The Least Miracle
Adieu	p. 234
Order for Masks	p. 234
Batik Maker
Mock Ballad on a Pearl
Perfume Prayer
Poro Point	p. 236
Return of the Magi
"Celebration" by Luz	p. 237
The Lovers
Forbear: The Cat Flounders	p. 238
Pedagogy	p. 238
Voyagers on Recto Avenue
El Amor Brujo	p. 239
Alignment	p. 240
Black Fish
In My Country	p. 240
Laws of Sight	p. 241
To Caliban	p. 241
Parable of Stones
"Love Notes to Theresa"	p. 242
Tinikling	p. 242
The Gueriila Is Like a Poet	p. 242
Pedagogic	p. 243
Chinese Impressions [excerpt]
A Man Falls to His Death
Treatise on Imagination
Concerning the Death, by Assassination, of Benigno Aquino Jr. August 21, 1983
I Think Thoughts of People's War	p. 244
Song for Anna
Bringing the Dolls	p. 245
Summer Night	p. 245
Soldier's Song	p. 246
My Country Was a Long Time Ago	p. 246
Gethsemane	p. 247
His Hidden Self	p. 247
Ermita Girls
Days in the Country
Villanelle Giving Reasonable Advice	p. 249
Restaurant
On the Birth of a Son	p. 249
An Evening: Isosceles and I	p. 250
Dumaguete Desperadoes
Landing	p. 250
Summer	p. 251
Third World Opera	p. 251
February
Oracle of the Yellow Rain	p. 252
Poem	p. 252
Icarus Christ
Poems Using Tagalog Forms
Cabala
Pateros Blues
The People's Warrior
Open Letters to Filipino Artists
"Between our bed..."	p. 256
A Philippine History Lesson
A Way of Coming Home
Song for My Father	p. 256
Saxophonetyx	p. 258
Child of Tolerance	p. 259
Over the Edge	p. 259
No Man's Land
Carillonneur
Disillusionment	p. 261
Writings on the Margin of a Book	p. 261
Epilogue to Jolo Exodus	p. 262
Voyager	p. 262
Incantation / A Scroll	p. 263
Thursday the Thirteenth	p. 263
Fr. Rudy Romano, Remembered	p. 263
Leather Excretes	p. 264
Corpus Delicti	p. 264
I Love the Red	p. 265
Love Is Too Thin
Strike
Notes on Short Story Writers	p. 267
Notes on Poets	p. 271
Acknowledgments	p. 275
Index of Authors and Titles	p. 277
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