About the book:
Venerated for its virtuosity and verve, Cirilo F. Bautista’s landmark The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus towers as the single most important achievement in twentieth-century Philippine anglophone poetry. Bringing together his epics The Archipelago, Telex Moon and Sunlight on Broken Stones, this peerless and demanding masterwork showcases the late literary titan at his best: musical in movement, cerebral in diction, mythological in expanse, and muscular in his lyricism. These sweeping epics catapult from Manila to the metaphysical, and sail across history from Magellan to Martial Law. Illuminated by a critical introduction by Ronald Baytan, may this new edition invite the next generation of readers into Bautista’s dazzling imagination and language, towards our nation’s “Bright sign, bright age.”