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About Us

Established in 2008, XU Press is the publishing arm of Xavier

University, whose fundamental mission is the publication of
instructional materials, books, and literary works which
promote scholarship and knowledge of Mindanaoan life and
culture. As of year 2017, XU Press has published more than
fifty books on various themes and topics, on top of
Kinaadman journal which the Press publishes annually.
v Mission

Mission
As a University-based publishing, XU Press plays a role in
publishing instructional materials pertinent to the academic
curricula and books that address the knowledge gaps in the
region. This latter role, in view of the scarcity of publishing
outfits in the region, has made XU Press vital in promoting
awareness of Mindanao to the bigger world.
In fulfilling its vision and mission, the Press will be guided by
the following principles.
 BRIDE PRICE AND OTHER STORIES
BY CALBI ANJI ASAIN

Fiction | Copyright 2023

ISBN 978-971-9094-32-6
150mm x 210mm | 146 pages

In focus in this short fiction collection are the

controversial yet colorful inhabitants of the
historic archipelago of Sulu known popularity
as “people of the current,” who live in the
Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim
Mindanao (BRMM) in the country.

The characters who display relative depth and

complexity in the stories depict vulnerabilities to
the impacts or effects of human follies, failures,
and faults, but they also manifest willingness to
love and be loved as friends, lovers, parents,
and children. As such, the stories may strike the
readers as criticisms of Tausug life but at the
same time, they evoke their sympathy and
empathy as the characters become victims of
circumstances beyond their control--the same
thing could happen to non-Tausugs.

The characters’ demeanors in this collection mirror the social forces taking place in their midst,
the most devastating of which was the war between Tausug revolutionaries and the government
in the 1970's and the biases and prejudices, real or imagined, against them by mainstream
detractors.

Their struggle for identity and recognition has enabled them to mingle with other Filipinos as they
engage themselves in education, politics, and other social processes. Such processes likewise
make and unmake the Tausugs in their homeland and society in transition.

About the author:

Calbi Anji Asain holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Philippine Studies specializing in Anthropology,
History, and Philippine literature. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in English summa cum laude
from the Notre Dame of Jolo College (NDJC) and his Master of Arts in English from the University
of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City.
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SIKWATENG UWAN
BY JEENA RANI MARQUEZ AND MARIA ELENA PAULMA

Non-Fiction | Copyright 2023

ISBN 978-971-9094-39-5
152.4mm x 228.6mm | 210 pages

SIKWATENG UWAN (Chocolate Rain) tells

the story of one of the deadliest ecological
crises in the Philippines—typhoon Sendong,
which hit Northern Mindanao in 2011. The
night Sendong hit Cagayan de Oro and killed
more than a thousand people in its wake
unfolds in the book chronologically through
oral narratives told by survivors juxtaposed
with meteorological and news reports, as well
as poetic evocations of ecological imagery
woven throughout the book.

Sikwateng Uwan captures the tragedy that

befell the people of Cagayan de Oro and the
culturally mediated ways ordinary people
responded to an extraordinary climate crisis.

The authors tell their own Sendong stories articulating the twin themes of courage and fear,
of waiting and renewal. The festive images of Christmas tinsel and trees contrast the themes
of life and light with that of loss and darkness. The image of the rain and river picks up the
same themes in the transforming context of time and memory. Mud and water brings forth
life and death, and healing.

About the authors:

Jeena Rani Marquez is a Palanca award-winning author She has undergone training in research, winning, and
teaching in London, Norwich, and Manchester. She is also the author of Beyond Words (Pahiwatig ng Lambing),
The River of Gold, and the co-author of The Night that Changed the River.

Maria Elena Paulma specialized in Creatve Writing and Comparative Literature at UP Diliman where she
earned all her degrees. Her short story “Three Kisses” won the First Prize in the 2010 Palanca Awards.
 LASANG SA MGA PASUMBINGAY:
SIXTEEN SOUTHERN WRITERS
EDITIED BY MERLIE ALUNAN
Anthology | Copyright 2023
ISBN 978-971-9094-37-1
152.4mm x 228.6mm | 431 pages

The content of this book, Lasang sa

Pasumbingay, was presented in a creative
writing workshop at the UP Tacloban College
in Tacloban City in December 2008. The
present title arrived as an afterthought,
insights crystalized over time and events of
the unfolding years.

Compiled in commemoration of the First

Centenary of the University of the Philippines.
Proceedings of the UPV Centennial Creative
Writing Workshop University of the
Philippines Visayas Tacloban College,
Tacloban City Multilingual works by leading
writers of Philippine literature and theorists,
with contributions from National Artists.

This is a fine testament to the continuing vitality of so-called “regional literatures.” All too
often, the “regional” is associated with what is parochial, divisive, localist, vernacular. The
sixteen young Visayan writers gathered in this volume demolish such notions. While bound
by a deep sense of home and place, they are in no way “provincial.” They are multilingual,
mobile, open to the world, highly literate, and very contemporary. Let this book be a tribute
as well to the widely esteemed poet and teacher who made this book possible, Merlie M.
Alunan, mother and mentor to young Visayan writers.
—RESIL B. MOJARES, National Artist for Literature

About the author:

Merlie M. Alunan is Professor Emeritus of the UP Tacloban College and author of several anthologies on
Visayan Literature. She was the convenor of the UPVTC Centennial Creative Writing Workshop which produced
these manuscripts.
 LANAO BOY: THE WRITINGS OF
MANUEL E. BUENAFE (1916-1963)
EDITIED BY MARIA CORAZON E. BUENAFE

Anthology | Copyright 2023

ISBN 978-971-9094-40-1
152.4mm x 228.6mm | 358 pages

This book wrote itself. It is a compilation of

manuscripts and papers left behind by
Manuel E. Buenafe: verses, third-person
stories, journals, ghost-writing, newspaper
and magazine articles, published and
unpublished.

Manuel Buenafe lived from 24 December,

1916 to 1 November, 1963. He was raised
and educated under the American
occupation. He had just started in the civil
service when war broke out. Like many of his
generation he struggled and survived
Japanese occupation. He resumed his
career in the civil service and served through
the first two decades of Independence.

He was a civil servant and a concerned citizen; a thinking person who worked to make a
difference in the concerns and passions of the fledgling Republic. He wrote incessantly
throughout his life; recording life and his thoughts as they unfolded.

These are stories of a Filipino’s reality and eyewitness accounts of particular times and
places in the past through the eyes and sensibilities of the man who lived it.
 BALANGAY STORIES
BY MARIA ELENA PAULMA

Children’s Literature | Copyright 2023

ISBN 978-971-9094-38-8
127mm x 178mm | 116 pages

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
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central and mighty image that speaks of the glory
and sophistication of a people.

About the author:

Born in Butuan City, Maria Elena Paulma specialized in Creatve Writing and Comparative
Literature at UP Diliman where she earned all her degrees. Her short story “Three Kisses” won the
First Prize in the 2010 Palanca Awards. She is currently the VPAA of University of Science and
Technology of Southern Philippines (USTP) in Cagayan de Oro City.
 ISLAMIC LAW DICTIONARY WITH
APPENDICES
EDITED & COMPILED BY HARON A. PANGCOGA

Dictionary | Copyright 2022

ISBN 978-971-9094-36-4-2
148 mm x 210 mm | 190 pages

“Poetry that was absolutely wonderful, that

did what great poetry 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.”

This is a reference source of Arabic and English

legal terms that are mostly encountered in the

SRP 500.00P study of Islamic Law and Local Adat in the

Philippines.

Compiled by Haron Pangcoga, an expert in Islamic Arabic studies and Sharia-Philippines

studies, this reference source is drawn from various competent sources.

About the author:

Prof. Pangcoga was a professor at MSU Mindanao State University-Marawi for more than 3
decades until he passed away in 2019. He finished AB Islamic Studies at MSU Marawi and also
finished MPA, MA Shari'ah and was practicing Shari'ah Law at the Shariah Center.
Recipient of NBDB’s publication grant 2022.
 COMING HOME TO THE ISLANDS:
POEMS

BY ARLENE J. YANDUG

Poetry | 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
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events, turning them into meaningful pieces that
hopefully bring readers to a sense of home.

About the author:

Arlene Yandug was born and raised in Bukidnon, she considers her writing a dwelling in between two
languages, Cebuano, and English, mostly inspired by the stories, histories, landscapes, and the rustic ambiance
of her hometown and the places she lived in or frequented in childhood.
She teaches literature and writing at Xavier University where she also co-edited a literary anthology
“Tinubdan” with two of her colleagues. “Coming Home to the Island,” which won a publication grant from the
National Book Development Board (NBDB) is her first book in poetry.
 TINUBDAN: NEW VOICES FROM
NORTHERN MINDANAO
EDITED BY ARLENE YANDUG, MA. ELENA
PAULMA & LILIA COTEJAR

Anthology | Copyright 2021

ISBN 978-971-9094-29-6
210 mm x 140 mm | 258 pages

This new literary 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 contemporary Philippine
literature, it is a helpful resource for courses related
to writings from the regions, contemporary literature
in the Philippines, Philippine literary criticism and
creative writing.

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About the editors:

Lilia Cotejar earned her MA degree in English at Xavier Ateneo and her PhD in English Language
and Literature at the Ateneo de Manila University.
Maria Elena Paulma is the author of “Southern Stories and Strays” a collection of fiction and
nonfiction published by the University of the Philippine Press in 2017.
Arlene J Yandug presently, she sits on the editorial board of Kinaadman, a journal of southern
Philippines; and of Carayan, DELL’s online journal for creative writing and literary study. She holds a
PhD in Creative Writing from the university of the Philippines, Diliman.
THE UNTOLD STORIES OF CAMIGUIN
ISLAND
BY ANDRÉS NARROS LLUCH

Historical Fiction | Copyright 2020

ISBN 978-971-9094-30-2
213 mm x 138 mm | 134 pages

This combines ethnohistorical 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 missionary

center was established by the Augustinian
Recollects, then followed by an account on
Camiguin’s legendary warrior and healer, Datu
Mehong. The last part of the book recounts the
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infamous volcanic eruption in 1871.

About the author:

Andrés Narros Lluch earned his PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Universidad
Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). He has done field work as an aid worker and social
researcher in Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Central America, South America, East Africa and Europe
for twenty years.
In 2015 he co-founded a small foundation called “Kilaha,” dedicated to documenting and supporting
local culture and identity, as well as preserving the fascinating biodiversity of the island of Camiguin.
SONGS SPRUNG FROM NATIVE SOILS

EDITED BY RICARDO DE UNGRIA

Non-Fiction | Copyright 2019

ISBN 978-971-9094-31-9
228 mm x 153 mm | 371 pages

The book provides a critical framework with which to

view Mindanaoan literature. By way of interview, 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 literary development in the Philippines in the
light of the center-region
discourse.

The writers interviewed are Leoncio Deriada,

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Noralyn Mustafa, Jaime An Lim, Christine Godinez-
Ortega, Calbi Asain, Lia Lopez-Chua, Telesforo
Sungkit Jr, and Almayrah Tiburon.

About the editor:

Poet and translator Ricardo M. de Ungria has published eight books of poetry and edited a number of
anthologies, for which he won several National Book Awards. On a Fulbright Grant, he received his MA in
Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis.
He has served Chancellor of UP Mindanao (2001-07) and Commissioner for the Arts at the National
Commission for Culture and the Arts (2009-11). He makes his home in Davao, the city of his last breath.
 CROSSING THE RIVER
BY ANTHONY TAN

Poetry | Copyright 2019

ISBN 978-971-9094-26-5
142 mm x 257 mm | 121 pages

“Poetry that was absolutely wonderful, that

did what great poetry 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.”

Poetry of this quality is one of the rarest and finest

gifts that
one human being can give to another. We can never
thank you
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enough for the gift you have given to all of us.”
(Blurb) --- Dan Veach, Editor of Atlanta Review

About the author:

Tony’s poems, essays and short stories have appeared in various magazines and journals, here and
abroad, including the Manoa of the University of Hawai-i and the “Atlanta Review,” Atlanta, Georgia.
He has won three Palanca awards: two for poetry and one for the essay. He has sat as a panelist in
various writers’ workshops such as Iligan National Writers Workshop, and the workshops in Davao
City and Zamboanga City.
 hate-eating birds
BY DENVER EJEM TORRES

Poetry | Copyright 2018

ISBN 978-971-9094-25-8
148 mm x 211 mm | 77 pages

“What we often overlook is the connection

between poetry and pain. This is because
essentially a poem is a song, which connotes
joy and celebration. But there likewise are sad
songs. hey, 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

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into wisdom. This we find in poem after poem
in Denver Torres’ collection.”
(Blurb) --- Simeon Dumdum

About the author:

Denver Ejem Torres is a poet and essayist. He writes in two languages, English and Bisaya. He earned
his degree in English Language & Literature Studies from Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan.
He’s been a Fellow for Literary Translation and Poetry to several writers’ workshops.
His poems have been published in the Philippines, Singapore, India and the USA. In 2013, his essay
“How Gemino Abad Got Me Published” won in the 12th My Favorite Book Awards, an essay writing
contest sponsored by National Bookstore and Philippine Star.
 basâ-basa
BY TON DAPOSALA

Poetry/ Balak | 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 fakery of a Filipino
suburbia.The object of the quest, figured as female,
as in many cases perverse, wayward, fleeting, even
non-existent except in the fevered brain of the
seeker. His muse, if it does exist, is so trapped in the
ordinary that the quest ends without fulfillment.

In the images of sexual congress, whether

consummated or denied, the poems create a totality,

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poetica, complex, painful, sardonic, but supple and
confident in its youthfulness and virility.

Daposala’s poetry 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

About the author:

Miyembro si Ton sa “Nagkahiusang Magsusulat sa Cagayan de Oro (NAGMAC) diin usa

siya sa mga senior writers. Nakaapil pod siya sa 18th Iligan National witers Workshop ug 27th
Cornelio Faigao Writers Workshop, ug 57th UP National Writers Workshop. Mahilig pod siya
og music.
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