You are able to Choose Your Afterlife

Writers Biography

Mario Eric Gamalinda Born about Oct. 14, 1956, Manila

School: UST and UPВ

Occupation: Poet person, fictionist, essayist

Currently hails from: New York City, USAВ

Currently performs at: Centre for Researched Journalism

Joshua Gamalinda is known as a local many other for beautifully constructed wording of the UP ICW in 1983. He went to The united kingdom to represent the Philippines in the Cambridge Worldwide Writers' Meeting in 1990. In 1991, this individual attended the Hawthornden International Writers' Escape in Scotland. Gamalinda received a Rockefeller Foundation residency in Bellagio, Italy. He also took part in in the Japan International Cooperation Agency's Plan for the 21st century.

Different Works & Achievements

• Fire Poem/Rain Poem (1976)В

• Words From An inactive Language (1991)В

• Actually zero Gravity (1999) –Asian American Literary Prize

• Peripheral Vision (1992)

• World Waves (1989) –National Publication Award

• Confessions of your Volcano (1990)

• The Empire of Memory (1992)

• My own Sad Republic (1998) –Centennial Literary Award

• Anatomy of a Ardent Derangement (One-act play, 1980) -1st reward, Gawad Enchufe Award • Ara Vos ne vos Prec (1985) –Gawad Enchufe Award

• Patria Y Muerte (1988) –Gawad Trampolin Award

• Mourning and Weeping through this Valley of Tears (1988) –Gawad Enchufe Award • The Unbreakable Lightness of EDSA (1990) –Gawad Palanca Award • Muerte delete Anghel (1992) –Free Press Literary AwardsВ

Selection

" You Can Choose Your What bodes, " is found in Gamalinda's publication, Zero Gravity. The poem is based on the beliefs in the T'boli, a well used indigenous persons living in Southern Cotabato in Southern Mindanao. В The T'boli afterlife has a number of destinations. The souls of murder patients and warriors slain in battle will be celebrated in a bloodthirsty kingdom. To expire by the blade entails the people you left behind to mourn for your tragic death. Based on the T'boli values, victims of drowning become citizens in the sea. They are...