‘The gumamela is still red’
Like its antecedent, The Gumamela Is Still Red is mainly a book of poems but appropriately includes brief items in prose, such as narratives and correspondences, in order to contextualize the poems in historical, class and personal terms from the revolutionary viewpoint of the proletariat, all toiling masses of workers and peasants and the Lumad […]
The long struggle for freedom
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Jose Maria Sison, Gedichten
Jose Maria Sison, Gedichten [Poems] Vertaling: Edgar Koning [with original text in English] Utrecht: International Network for Philippine Studies (INPS) May 1993.
THE BLADED POEM
Behold the bladed poem Tensile and razor-sharp Cold and glinting silver In the light or dark. See how the blackbird Of a hilt flies Bedecked with pearls On the firm mobile hand. Look at each face On the leaf of steel, The virile subtle flames, Images of incised gold. On one face are toilers Varied […]
Poems and Rest
A POEM ON JOSE MARIA SISON
The Life and Times of a Seditious Poet By Edgar B. Maranan We shall line them up against the wall! –attributed to Jose Maria Sison, UP basement canteen, ca. 1960,but could be apocryphal. Not for him the contemplation of coconuts, virgin or otherwise, succulent to tongue and teeth, but the bitter crop of tales from […]
JMS’ Performs his Poems
Prof. Jose Maria Sison performing his poetry