Poems of Rolando S. Tinio, Jose F. Lacaba & Rio Alma cross-cultural conversations

cross-cultural conversations

the earthy

a human cluster

shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Award for 2018

unrelenting in their clarity

Poems of Rolando S. Tinio, Jose F. Lacaba & Rio Alma cross-cultural conversationsThis second volume in Vagabonds Asia Pacific Poetry Series brings together a selection of poetry by three major Filipino poets writing in Tagalog: Rolando S. Tinio, Jose F. Lacaba & Rio Alma, translated from Tagalog and introduced by Robert Nery, with cover art by Lyra Garcellano. Rolando S. Tinio was born in the packed district of Tondo, Manila in 1937, and began writing poetry in English. He switched to Tagalog, his mother tongue, (the national