Rainbow Chronicles

This volume despite its bulk is highly readable for all those interested in Philippine and Bikol poetry. The poems that span more than fifty years reflect the voice of a generation now in its twilight, ever searching for home, one of her themes. While some poems will fuel exercises in close reading, Rainbows would be perfect for a literary history, based on the enduring as well as changing themes of the poems, to trace what has changed through the years based on society’s expectations, as recorded in this prism of reflections and experiences of a Bikol poet, wife and mother, the author of the poetry of her life. – From the Foreword by Paz Verdades-Santos