Leaving Our Shadows Behind Us wayfaring and they offer rare and

and they offer rare and timeless insights into the Philippines now and in the recent past

5" x 11" | B&W

served as stew­ard of the land that belonged to the gods

Darlene Rodrigues

She grew up in the woods of New Hampshire and moved to Hawaiʻi in 1994

Leaving Our Shadows Behind Us wayfaring and they offer rare andAn emerging voice in local literature, Elmer Omar Bascos Pizo translates his feelings into his poetry, reinterpreting his life experiences and working diligently to maintain authenticity. His poems are uniquely provocative, often sad in depicting his journey from an abusive childhood in the Philippines, through the trials of an overseas Filipino worker enduring and witnessing injustice and torture in the Middle East, to the challenges of a hard