Leaving Our Shadows Behind Us wayfaring independence

independence

The book’s excellent layout and close up color illustrations are enough to tempt first-timers to try their hands in creating these very special symbols of aloha

transpacific feminist fairy tale for all readers that illuminates an ancient tradition and pushes back against normative standards of beauty

Darlene Rodrigues

served as stew­ard of the land that belonged to the gods

Leaving Our Shadows Behind Us wayfaring independenceAn emerging voice in local literature, Elmer Omar Bascos Pizo translates his feelings into his poetry, reinterpreting his life experiences and working diligently to maintain authenticity. His poems are uniquely provocative, often sad in depicting his journey from an abusive childhood in the Philippines, through the trials of an overseas Filipino worker enduring and witnessing injustice and torture in the Middle East, to the challenges of a hard