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barangay: an offshore poem

By Adrian Leon, Jason Edward Pagaduan (Photographer)
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By Adrian Leon, Jason Edward Pagaduan (Photographer)
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As beautiful and varied as an archipelago, barangay is an elegant new collection of poetry from Adrian De Leon that gathers in and arranges the difficult pieces of a scattered history.

While mourning the loss of his grandmother who "lived, loved and grieved in three languages," De Leon skips his barangay, which is both a boat and an administrative unit in the Philippine government, over the history of both his family and a nation. In these poems De Leon considers the deadly impact of coloni...