POETRY
Sana’y Hindi na
Dapat Maulit Muli
NI E. SAN JUAN, Jr.
Bulatlat
....pagkaraan ng mahabang pagsasalaysay
ng ginawang pagmamalupit ng mga sundalo ng diktaduryang
Marcos
na naging vigilante ni Tita Cory--
pagkoryente
sa maselang bahagi ng katawan
pagduro ng sigarilyo
sa suso
walanghiyang paglapastangan
pagbugbog
paggahasa
wala
wala kaming makuhang masabi
sa
pakikibahaging ito--
nausal na lamang sa
sarili
kagat ang labi
hindi
hindi na dapat maulit ito muli
hindi na dapat
ngunit paano mangyayari ito
kung sarili lamang
ang muling
ipagdarasal?
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ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
E. SAN
JUAN, Jr. was recently visiting professor of literature and cultural
studies at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and lecturer in seven
universities in the Republic of China. He was previously Fulbright
professor of American Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in
Belgium and fellow of the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan
University. Among his recent books are BEYOND POSTCOLONIAL THEORY (Palgrave),
RACISM AND CULTURAL STUDIES (Duke University Press), and WORKING THROUGH
THE CONTRADICTIONS (Bucknell University Press). Two books in Filipino were
launched in 2004: HIMAGSIK (De La Salle University Press) and TINIK SA
KALULUWA (Anvil); his new collection of poems in Filipino, SAPAGKAT
INIIBIG KITA AT MGA BAGONG TULA, was released last year by the University
of the Philippines Press
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