December, 2000 Volume 3, Issue 3 Past Issues About dis/content Editorial Collective Contributors Contact Us Submissions Links Home   Two Poems in Pilipino by E. San Juan, Jr., translated by the author E. San Juan Jr. is professor and chair of the Department of Comparative American Cultures, Washington State University. He was 1993 Fellow at the Institute for the Advanced Study of the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and 1995 Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, Ohio. His book Racial Formations/Critical Transformations won awards from the Association for Asian American Studies and the Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights. He received the 1994 Katherine Newman Award from the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures in the United States and the 1999 Centennial Award for Achievement in Literature from the Cultural Center of the Philippines. San Juan’s recent books are: Beyond Postcolonial Theory (St. Martin’s Press); From Exile to Diaspora: Versions of the Filipino Experience in the United States (Westview Press); Hegemony and Strategies of Transgression: Essays in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature (State University of New York Press); The Philippine Temptation: Dialectics of US-Philippines Literary Relations (Temple University Press); Mediations: From A Filipino Perspective (Anvil Publishing Co.); Allegories of Resistance (University of the Philippines Press), and History and Form (Ateneo de Manila University Press). Forthcoming volumes are Racism & Cultural Studies and Scenes, Voices, Trajectories: Introducing Philippine Literature. His works have been translated into Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Chinese, Japanese, and other languages. We are happy to offer these two poems from San Juan’s collection of poems in Pilipino, Alay Sa Paglikha Ng Bukang-liwayway [Offering for the Construction of Dawn], published by Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2000. We are also thankful to Prof. San Juan for translating his poems for dis/content. Next Section     Table of Contents