Monthly Archives: November 2014

JURAMENTADO! tula ni E. San Juan, Jr.


  Sabi ng mga magulang natin, takbo pag nakakita ng Moro–juramentado iyon! Hadji Kamlon–takbo! Jabidah–takbo! Dumarating sina Nur Misuari & Hashim Salamat–Hura? Huramentado? Tapos si Marcos, tapos si Cory Aquino, dumating ang Al-Qaeda O sige, bumaba sa Bud Dajo at … Continue reading

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AMBIL, a book of art and poetry in Filipino, by E. San Juan, Jr.


NEWS RELEASE AMBIL, E. San Juan’s new book of cultural provocations, now available Departing from his last neoconceptualist poetry collection, Mendiola Masaker (2014), U.S.-based author E. San Juan, Jr. crafted this new offering of anti-poems, experimental graphic word-art, and “unexpressive” … Continue reading

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RE-VISITING CARLOS BULOSAN’S LIFE AND WORKS (during Filipino-American History Month)


EXCAVATING THE BULOSAN RUINS: WHAT IS AT STAKE IN RE-DISCOVERING THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST WRITER IN THE AGE OF U.S. GLOBAL TERRORISM? by E. SAN JUAN, Jr. Numerous Filipino-American organizations in California celebrated the signing of Assembly Bill 123 by Governor Jerry … Continue reading

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SPINOZA’S PHILOSOPHY: The Body, Race, Freedom by E.San Juan, Jr.


Spinoza and the War of Racial Terrorism   E. San Juan, Jr.   A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation on life, not on death…. If men were born free, they … Continue reading

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AMBIL, new book by E. San Juan, Jr., offers provocations


NEWS RELEASE AMBIL, E. San Juan’s new book of cultural provocations, now available Departing from his last neoconceptualist poetry collection, Mendiola Masaker (2014), U.S.-based author E. San Juan, Jr. crafted this new offering of anti-poems, experimental graphic word-art, and “unexpressive” … Continue reading

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