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The Sea-Gypsies Stay by Rowena T. Torrevillas COFFEE TABLE BOOKSThe poet herself speaks of it: "All of us who write in English from a Filipino context experience a self division, but the circumstances of my upbringing in Dumaguete and in the midwestern United States have sharpened my own feel for the edges and margins of things, and made me, for life, something of an onlooker Anyone who owns two languages knows the pleasure of grasping a word, of judging its heft and roughness's, and its fine, sharp edges. The

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" Garland's great gift is conveying such mental states with the economy and grace of a Muhammad Ali punch

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These pages bring to life the people

this furniture is exported world-wide and Filipino wood carving and cane weave is just as likely to be found in a penthouse apartment in New York as it is to be found on any one of the 7

Narciso Torres has received fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council

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The contributors take on little explored topics and expand the limits of ethnic-based identity

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