This project of "balikbayan" (homecoming) unfolds through poems and graphics--in-progress spanning four decades of exile. It seeks to map one emigre's itinerary through terrains of disruption and dislocation. Written in English and in Filipino (with translations into Chinese, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Italian), these traces of the writer's journey strive to foreground the ordeals of deterritorialization shared by all colonized peoples--a universal experience given a local habitation and name in the trajectory of this flight in search of passages to uncharted shores. Less a Baedeker for remembering or reaching a destination, this palimpsest of tropes/signs hopes to construct zones of departure for discovering new territory built out of a history of collective sacrifices grounding our dreams and desires. Exile is the name for this material process of renewal and liberation--love for whoever is returning, the beloved fulfilling the promise of redemption in the birth pangs of revolutionary struggle.

A revaluation of the significance of the Filipino national hero's (Jose Rizal's) discourse on freedom, human rights, and national liberation centering on the liberation of women and its ramifications in the total emancipation of a nation-people from colonial barbarism, imperial subjugation, and patriarchal hegemony. This supplements the essays of the author in RIZAL IN OUR TIME (revised edition) published by Anvil Publishing Inc., Manila, Philippines, in 2011.

An innovative radical interpretation of the life and works of Jose Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines, the "pride of the Malay race," in the context of crisis in the neocolony and world revolution against imperialism at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This supplements the author's earlier book, Rizal in Our Time, Revised Edition (Manila: Anvil Publishing, 2011).

Surrealist, experimental poems in Filipino by E. San Juan, Jr., cultural critic and public intellectual, with English translations or versions, addressing urgent social and political problems in the ongoing crisis in the Philippines and in the Filipino diaspora around the world--a sequel to previous volumes, BALIKBAYANG MAHAL: PASSAGES FROM EXILE and SUTRANG KAYUMANGGI.

Experimental, innovative, radical surrealist poetry in Filipino blasting the continuum of feudal tradition and capitalist hegemony, by E. San Juan, Jr, cultural critic, scholar and exiled intellectual from the Philippines. "Filipino" is the official name of the national language of the Philippines. Several poems include translations into English. A sequel to Balikbayang Mahal: Passages from Exile (LuLu.com).