Nick Joaquin is one writer with real imagination, an imagination of power and depth and great metaphysical seeing, and which knows how to express itself in great language, He is our only poet who has language, who writes poetry, and who reveals behind his writing a genuine first-rate mind. – Jose Garcia Villa

If Joaquin is our allegorist par excellence, his amateur; ad hoc theorizing can now be linked to “theory” in its Greek sense of “theater” and to “theorist” as referring to: envoy sent to visit the oracle in search of divine communication and interpretation of the god’s message. Joaquin’s art may be assayed as a profound theorizing of our spiritual predicament, our collective destiny as a people. One can sum up Joaquin’s writing as an intensely haunting dialogical play of the imagination with such differences, a dialectic of theory (in the Greek sense) struggling to celebrate the dreamed-for and much prophesied wedding of nature and history. – E. San Juan, Jr.

L 18 x W 13 x H 2cm