Canticos: Apat na Boses by K. S. Cordero

After translating the works of Rilke in Bikol, Cordero, according to award-winning poet Alvin Yapan, “comes into his own voice to articulate that confrontation with the sacred in this collection of four religious songs.” “This is a meditation on the experience of dis-memberment present in desire and social exile, which are both physical and spiritual, painful and purgative. Cordero shows just how much depth the Bikol language has in its lyricism.”