English
Filipino
Sonetos Postumos
Rio Alma with Marne Kilates, translator and Ang Kiukok, artist
University of the Philippines Press, c2006
Journey into the strange biblical landscape of Sonetos Postumos. Strewn with relics of the past, it is also scattered with keys and clues to looking at the present and contemplating the future. Between “breath and death,” desert and crumbling city, Jericho and Gethsemane, the Bible can speak like the Tibetan Book of the Death, John the Baptist might meet Dante, and Florante and Lam-Ang could encounter Plato, Nietzche or Alejandro G. Abadilla.
Explore, too, the visual experience of Sonetos Postumos. This new compelling collection by National Artist for Literatures Virgilio S. Almario (Rio Alma), is counter pointed with the stunning art of the late Ang Kiukok, National Artist for the Visual Arts.
(Photo courtesy of Marne Kilates)