NEW RELEASED BOOK

BALANGAY STORIES by Maria Elena Paulma

The stories are master studies on how minute details in

history, archaeology, and language can be used as
portals to a distant time but with values and relations—
personal and social—that are so recognizable and which
we hold dear even in the present. Handled with deep
sensitivity to language and careful attention to family,
friendship, art, self, and community, Balangay invites us
to a journey in Masawa, pre-colonial Butuan, with the
balangay as a central and mighty image that speaks of
the glory and sophistication of a people.
Children’s Literature | Copyright 2023
127 mm x 178 mm | 116 pages

SRP 447.00
 XU PRESS Publications
Islamic Law Dictionary with Appendices
edited and compiled by Haron A. Pangcoga
Copyright 2022 | ISBN 978-971-9094-36-4 2
148 mm x 210 mm | 190 pages
This is a reference source of Arabic and English
legal terms that are mostly encountered in
the study of Islamic Law and Local Adat in the Philippines.
Compiled by Haron A. Pangcoga, an expert in Islamic Arabic
Studies and Sharia-Philippines studies, this reference source is
drawn from various competent sources.
SRP 500.00P
Coming Home to the Island: poems
by Arlene J. Yandug
Copyright 2022 | ISBN 978-971-9094-33-3
142 mm x 21 mm | 132 pages
Coming Home to the Island: Poems
recollects experience of the self in connection to place. In fifty
poems, Arlene Yandug weaves strands of past and present,
space and time, as she shows how the self is grasped in the
larger narrative of Mindanao, her home island. Speculating not
just on personal history, but also on the island’s distant past,
Yandug magnifies for the reader details that re-present the
invisible, remote layers of the self. In this meaning-making
process of remembering, the poet is re-contextualizing
conversations, interpolating facts, rearranging events, turning
them into meaningful pieces that hopefully bring readers to a
sense of home.
SRP 390.00P
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 Tinubdan: New Voices from Northern
Mindanao
edited by Arlene Yandug, Ma Elena Paulma,
& Lilia Cotejar
Copyright 2021 | ISBN 978-971-9094-29-6
210 mm x 140 mm | 258 pages
This new literar y collection features 20
writers, mostly emerging voices from the
northern Mindanao area. Prefaced with an essay on the ‘region’
as a critical concept in viewing contemporar y Philippine literature,
it is a helpful resource for courses related to writings from the
regions, contemporar y literature in the Philippines, Philippine
literar y criticism and creative writing. Funded by CHED, this
project was undertaken by Xavier ’s DELL (Department of English
Language and Literature) as Center of Development for Literature.
SRP 310.00P
The Untold Stories of Camiguin Island
by Andrés Narros Lluch
Copyright 2020 | ISBN 978-971-9094-30-2
213 mm x 138 mm | 134 pages
This combines ethno-historical research
on Camiguin island with fictional elements.
Evoking the lush natural environment and cultural atmosphere
of the island, the book delves into the island’s past, beginning
with the lives of early Manobo inhabitants. The second part
tells how the Christian missionar y center was established by
the Augustinian Recollects, then followed by an account on
Camiguin’s legendar y warrior and healer, Datu Mehong. The last
part of the book recounts the infamous volcanic eruption in 1871.
SRP 380.00P
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 Songs Sprung from Native Soils
by Ricardo de Ungria
Copyright 2019 | ISBN 978-971-0094-31-9
228 mm x 153 mm | 371 pages
The book provides a critical framework
with which to view Mindanaoan literature.
By way of inter view, it presents the writers’
personal backgrounds, their influences and creative processes.
The rich information in these conversations complements the
introduction which critiques the unbalanced cultural and literar y
development in the Philippines in the light of the center-region
discourse. The writers inter viewed are: Leoncio Deriada, Noralyn
Mustafa, Jaime An Lim, Christine Godinez-Ortega, Calbi Asain,
Lia Lopez-Chua, Telesforo Sungkit Jr, and Almayrah Tiburon.
SRP 550.00P
Crossing the River
by Anthony Tan
Copyright 2019 | ISBN 978-971-9094-26-5
142 mm x 257 mm | 121 pages
“Poetr y that was absolutely wonderful, that
did what great poetr y is supposed to do
refresh the heart, the mind, and the spirit…
“We want to express our deepest gratitude to you, for the
contributions you make to our lives and the lives of our readers.
Poetr y of this quality is one of the rarest and finest gifts that
one human being can give to another. We can never thank you
enough for the gift you have given to all of us.” (Blurb) --- Dan
Veach, Editor of Atlanta Review
SRP 275.00P
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 hate-eating birds
by Denver Ejem Torres
Copyright 2018 | ISBN 978-971-9094-25-8
148 mm x 211 mm | 77 pages
“What we often overlook is the connection
between poetr y and pain. This is because
essentially a poem is a song, which connotes
joy and celebration. But there likewise
are sad songs. They, however, no matter how deep the hurt is
within them, because they must needs go through a process of
artistic justification, comes out in the end as victorious. In its
being expressed in a measured, well-thought-out way, the pain
is distanced from the singer or poet and in the end transmuted
into wisdom. This we find in poem after poem in Denver Torres’
collection.” (Blurb) --- Simeon Dumdum
SRP 250.00P
basâ-basa
balak ni Ton Daposala
Copyright 2018 | ISBN 978-971-9094-23-4
150 mm x 212 mm | 110 pages
“ Ton Daposala takes us through what seems
like a macho journey in quest of sexual
conquest amid the grossness, banality, and
faker y of a Filipino suburbia.The object of
the quest, figured as female, as in many cases per verse, wayward,
fleeting, even non- existent except in the fevered brain of the
seeker. His muse, if it does exist, is so trapped in the ordinar y
that the quest ends without fulfillment. In the images of sexual
congress, whether consummated or denied, the poems create
a totality, a sort of mythopoeia in suburbia, a declaration of ars
poetica, complex, painful, sardonic, but supple and confident
in its youthfulness and virility. Daposala’s poetr y asserts the
relentless human drive to pursue meaning and beauty despite
the staleness and triteness of daily life. And spoken in the mother
tongue.” (Blurb) --- Merlie Alunan
SRP 275.00P
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 X75+ Cofeetable Book
Copyright 2010 | ISBN 978-971-9094-07-4
225 mm x 225 mm | 252 pages
Through pictures and words, we tell the
stor y of Xavier University – Ateneo de
Cagayan. This narrative of 75+ years
celebrates the academic life and community spirit, the times and
challenges that have shaped Xavier over the years. In our telling
of this stor y, we remember with gratitude all those who came
to form and be formed while here at Xavier. We honor the men
and women who devoted their lives to this mission, teaching us
in countless ways “to prepare for sacrifice” and to offer our lives
“for God and countr y.”
SRP 1000.00P
Kinaadman Journal
Copyright 2008 - 2019 | ISSN 0115-6012
148 mm x 210 mm | 336 pages | 107 pages
Kinaadman is a refereed journal produced
yearly by Xavier University Press. It publishes
multidisciplinar y or interdisciplinar y articles
or studies in the social sciences and humanities, particularly those
concerning Mindanao. Its target readers are the workers in the
academe and other social organizations which are interested in
the various aspects of Philippine life especially in the southern
part of the Philippines.
SRP 350.00P (2007 to present)
SRP 200.00P (1979 to 2006 and Index)
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