My American Kundiman

My American Kundiman

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<B>From one of our most charismatic poets, a personal song to America.</B><br><br>This pulsating collection picks up the beat and imagery of Patrick Rosal's thrilling debut, <I>Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive</I>. Here, though, the poet's electric narratives and portraits extend beyond the working class streets of urban New Jersey. Modeling poems on the kundiman, a song of unrequited love sung by Filipinos for their country in times of oppression, he professes his conflicted feelings for America, while celebrating and lamenting his various heritages€"whether by chatting up St. Patrick, riffing on race relations, or channeling Lapu Lapu in a rejoinder to Magellan. Passionate, provocative, and irrepressible throughout, <I>My American Kundiman</I> further establishes Rosal as a poet to be reckoned with.