Songs For The Beginning of the New Milennium
Songs for the Beginning of the Millennium (De La Salle
University Press, 1997); Finalist, 1998 National Book Award for Poetry,
Philippines
An epic poem on the Philippines, the centennial, and the revolutionary period,
in the context of contemporary issues and the imperatives of the future, in
alternating voices and in free verse, with loose terza rima structure.
This book was published as part of a series of poetry volumes to commemorate
the centennial of the Philippine revolution against Spain.
“Just as Filipinos a century ago turned to the writers of their time
for the clarity and wisdom of their vision, and the courage of their faith in
the freedom of the human spirit, we turn again to our writers as we begin a
new millennium in order to make sense of our engagement with our story as a
people, marking our passage and our maturation.”
(from the blurb,
Marjorie Evasco, poet
and professor of literature;
centennial literary series editor)
