Anatomy of Exile

• Main Author: Powell, Tamara
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Balikbayang Mahal; E. San Juan; Jr.; exile; Futurists; Mayakovsky; Permanent People’s Tribunal; St. Malo
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss11/6; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1143/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n11_2008_5D_203.2_Special_BalikbayangMahal_Powell.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This review essay provides an overview of the poetry and essays in E. San Juan, Jr.’s Balikbayang Mahal: Passages from Exile. Close attention is paid to “Mask of the Poet,” “Spring in Den Haag, Nederland, 25 March 2007,” “Vicissitudes of the Love and Death of Vladimir Mayakovsky,” and “Sa Loob at La...