Research Catalog

Title

Barangay : an offshore poem / Adrian De Leon ; photographs by Jason Edward Pagaduan.

Author

De Leon, Adrian

Publication

• Hamilton, ON : Buckrider Books, an imprint of Wolsak and Wynn Publishers, [2021]
• ©2021

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Additional Authors

Pagaduan, Jason Edward

Description

67 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"As beautiful and varied as an archipelago, barangay is an elegant new collection of poetry from Adrian De Leon that gathers in and arranges the difficult pieces of a scattered history. While mourning the loss of his grandmother who "lived, loved and grieved in three languages," De Leon skips his barangay, which is both a boat and an administrative unit in the Philippine government, over the history of both his family and a nation. In these poems De Leon considers the deadly impact of colonialism, the far-reaching effects of the diaspora from the Philippines and the personal loss of his ability to speak Ilokano, his grandmother's native tongue. These are spare, haunting poems, which wash over the reader like the waves of the ocean the barangays navigated long ago and then pull the reader into their current like the rivers De Leon left behind."--

Subject

• De Leon, Adrian > Family > Poetry
• Grandmothers > Poetry
• Filipinos > Poetry
• Iloko language > Poetry
• Emigration and immigration > Poetry
• Emigration and immigration
• Families
• Filipinos
• Grandmothers
• Iloko language
• Philippines > Poetry
• Philippines

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Call Number

JFD 22-1400

ISBN

• 9781989496367
• 1989496369

OCLC

1253747625

Author

De Leon, Adrian, author.

Title

Barangay : an offshore poem / Adrian De Leon ; photographs by Jason Edward Pagaduan.

Publisher

Hamilton, ON : Buckrider Books, an imprint of Wolsak and Wynn Publishers, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Pagaduan, Jason Edward, photographer.

Research Call Number

JFD 22-1400