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		Damaged People: Tales of the Gothic-Punk by Karl R. de Mesa Ghosts, monsters, the hearts of men – welcome to their underworld. A land covered by the umbra of gothic darkness, populated by the tragically hip, dancing to a brutal soundtrack. Damaged People, Tales of the Gothic-Punk collects the short stories that garnered De Mesa a cult following. Written in a cross between the fury if a heat wave and cold sincerity, this book gathers Manila’s wretched, fragile, dead and damaged into one incandescent book.

		Fourteen Love Stories Angelo R. Lacuesta (Editor), Jose Dalisay Jr. (Editor) LOVE -- in all its evil and glory -- is perfectly demonstrated in University of the Philippines Press' Fourteen Love Stories, edited by Jose Dalisay and Angelo Lacuesta. A follow-up to the successful One Hundred Love Poems, this collection assembles some of Philippine fiction's most memorable love stories.

		Philippine Postcolonial Studies: Essays on Language and Literature Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo (Editor), Priscelina Patajo - Legasto Out of print for more than a decade, the ground-breaking Philippine Postcolonial Studies is now reissued for the benefit of scholars, both young and old, who are interested in using this postcolonial paradigm to interrogate the more traditional approaches previously applied to the study and teaching of cultural practices. Though still controversial, the critical insights proposed in these essays remain valid today, and like Philippine Postcolonial Studies itself, this book has produced "insightful critical texts, foregrounded hitherto marginalized literary and cultural practices, and ...contributed to a better understanding of our own society."

		The Gaze: Poems Arvin Abejo Mangohig The Gaze is a collection of erotic poetry that is delightful and disturbing, bright and dark, searing and chilling, all at the same time. "Mangohig's erotic poetry pushes the envelope of what can be properly verbalized in verses, and thus valorized as art. But by daring to speak about what for most people is unspeakable, he defies the conventions of polite society and good literature ... as a 'transgressive aesthetic'." -- The Philippine Daily Inquirer

		Beautiful Accidents: Stories Ian Rosales Casocot In twelve stories collected from a decade of writing fiction, the much-awarded Dumaguete writer Ian Rosales Casocot attempts to rescue personal experience from the ephemera of travel and sexual limbo, and in the process makes his stories a fixative art, each one a grand evocation of style. “Beautiful accidents litter his stories, like glass shards from a collision … He uses language amorously, as a lover savors a kiss, so that passion becomes as real as the rhythm of his sentences,” writes Timothy R. Montes of this collection of stories, where once proud fathers fade after the golden age of sugarcane in Negros, where mothers are fossilized in the celluloid memories of old movies, and where the very young play dangerous games as they hustle for sex, love, and attention in the small and weary world of university towns.

		Geek Tragedies Carljoe Javier Geek Tragedies is Carljoe Javier's first collection of short stories. It features realist fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, and horror. In it you'll find zombies, alien-hands, comic book geeks, convention-attending promo girls, an iPod time machine, and a generation starship filled with people hypnotized by and dancing to "Laban o Bawi.

		A History of the Philippines Samuel K. Tan A History of the Philippines, herein offered by Dr. Samuel K. Tan … offers a conceptual framework of what he calls “the story of man in the Philippines” in the context of “the specific ecological system” and “distinctive historical experience” that have shaped his “particular character and identity.” Dr. Tan provides in this slim volume a picture of Philippine culture which … “ought to be understood from the totality of the ethnolinguistic varieties which constitute the fabric of Filipino society.” —Bernardita Reyes Churchill

		Revisiting Usog, Pasma, Kulam Michael L. Tan This book looks at folk illnesses in the Philippines including, as the title suggests, usog, pasma, and kulam. Rather than looking at these folk illnesses as “superstitions,” Tan explains the broader social and cultural contexts of these concepts. Tan uses different social science perspectives to explore the deeper meanings of these illnesses, including their links to social norms, tensions, and conflicts. He emphasizes, too, that far from being static, these folk illnesses continue to evolve, influenced by western medicine as well as new images around health and illnesses that come with mass media and advertising. Finally, he calls attention to a medical ecological perspective, looking at how our changing relationships with the natural environment also lead to modifications in the folk illnesses.

		Surgeons do not cry Ting Tiongco A collection of personal essays, "Surgeons do not cry" recounts the stories and experiences of Ting Tiongco, who was a surgeon at the UP-PGH (University of the Philippines – Philippine General Hospital). He tells of the agonies and triumphs of both doctors and patients who have peopled this venerable institution through the ages.

		Hairtrigger Loves: 50 Poems on Woeman Alfred A. Yuson "Alfred A. Yuson’s trademark macho wordplay delights once more in a collection that bites, but tenderly. Intoxicated by women, his personae map a graceful arc from tormented adoration, to lovelorn sparring, to the serene recognition of the woman as reflection, as mirror. Hairtrigger Loves telescopes the history of a heart into 50 poems that cast a solemn eye on loves—contemplated, labored, savored, lost—and achieves, in the woe-man’s discovery of the power to speak plainly, a sort of rueful majesty.”—Vince Groyon
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