The Singing Detainee and the Librarian with One Book: Essays on Exile

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In late 2019, journalist Michael Beltran found himself in the city of Utrecht, The Netherlands, deep in conversation with Filipino revolutionary leaders Jose Maria Sison and Julie de Lima. What was planned to be a feature article ended up as a collection of observations on what it means to live in exile. Sison and de[…]

The Guerrilla Is Like a Poet – Ang Gerilya Ay Tulad ng Makata

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Published: 09/27/2013

This book is titled after the world-renowned poem of Jose Maria Sison, “The Guerrilla Is Like a Poet,” which celebrates with natural imagery and in a lyrical way the Filipino people’s revolutionary struggle for national liberation and democracy against foreign and feudal oppression and exploitation. The book contains poems from Sison’s Prison and Beyond, which won[…]