Legend Sondayo (Civil Defense Pocketbook) - Softcover

Maiana Minahal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0978691326 ISBN 13: 9780978691325

Publisher: Civil Defense Poetry, 2009

Synopsis

History is written in the Body. But how does the Body know this, if the History that is learned is a denial or refusal of the truths that the Body remembers? The Legend of Sondayo is a remembered Filipino story that is told today in fragments. We will never know fully the richness and complexity, the meaning of layers, the beauty and sensuousness of the oral culture from where it emerged and once kept the village alive. The village of our indigenous memory was ravaged and pillaged by History s imperial narrative. But the Body doesn t forget. The past insists on being remembered. The Body that longs to be remembered calls upon this same History (of violence) in order to find its other face of healing, beauty, creativity. Leny Mendoza Strobel, from the introduction
Cover to cover this book is magic. The poetry lifts from the page and shapeshifts into a thousand moving pictures that dance and sing and move seamlessly through time, place, and gender. Maiana Minahal has taken a little-known Filipino folktale, spun it on its queer ear and made a most beautiful retelling. Sharon Bridgforth, author of love conjure/blues

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About the Author

Maiana Minahal is a queer Filipina American poet and teacher, born in Manila, raised in Los Angeles, and currently living in She was a winner in the 1999 San Francisco Bay Guardian Poetry Contest, and is a recipient of a Serpent Source Foundation Artist Award Grant. Her work has been published in "June Jordanas Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint" (ed. Muller, Routledge NY), Take Out: Queer Writings from Asian and Pacific America (ed. Bao, Temple Univ Press NY), inVasian: Asian Sisters Represent (ed. Kim, Study Center Press), Screaming Monkeys (ed. Galang, Coffee House Press), Going Home to a Landscape (ed. Villanueva, Calyx Press), maganda magazine, and is featured on the spoken word cd Infliptration: A Youngblood Revolution. An Artist-in-Residence at the Jon Sims Center, Maiana is creating a poetry performance called before their words, a collaborative, interdisciplinary poetry performance that combines subversive, poetic narrative with indigenous pre-colonial Philippine cultural traditions.

Edition details

• Publisher: Civil Defense Poetry
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0978691326
• ISBN 13: 9780978691325
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 78