The flesh made Word, The Poem.
Through printing presses, executions and revolutions—
the poem as history, history as the poem.
—Dr. Cirilo F. Bautista
Publications (Creative Writing and Research)
Galaw ng Asoge. Manila: UST Publishing House, 2004.
Tinik sa Dila. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 2003.
Winner, National Book Award of the Manila Critics Circle.
Bullets and Roses: The Poetry of Amado V. Hernandez,
a Bilingual Edition. Manila: De La Salle University Press, 2003.
The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus (three volumes in one edition).
Manila: De La Salle University Press, 2001. Winner,
National Book Award of the Manila Critics Circle.
Sunlight on Broken Stones (epic poem, Last Volume in The Trilogy
of Saint Lazarus). Manila: De La Salle University Press, 1999.
Winner, First Prize, National Centennial Commission Literary Contest
sponsored by the Philippine Government; The National Book Award
given by the Manila Critics Circle; and The Gintong Aklat Award
given by the Book Development Association of the Philippines.
Words and Battlefields--A Theoria on the Poem (literary theory).
Manila: De La Salle University Press, 1998. (A seminal work on
the phenomenology of the creative process.)
Kirot ng Kataga (collected Tagalog poems). Manila: De La Salle
University Press, 1995.
Boneyard Breaking (collected poems). Quezon City: Kalikasan Press, 1992.
Breaking Signs (essays in literature and semiotics). Manila:
De La Salle University Press, 1990.
Stories (collected short fiction). Manila: De La Salle University Press, 1990.
Stories in this collection won the Free Press Short Story Contest and
the Palanca Literary Contest.
Sugat ng Salita (collected Tagalog poems). Manila: De La Salle University
Press, 1985. Winner, National Book Award of the Manila Critics Circle.
Philippine Poetics: The Past Eight Years (essays). Winner. First Prize,
Palanca Literary Contest, 1981.
Crossworks (collected poems). Winner, First Prize, Palanca Literary
Contest, 1979.
Telex Moon (epic poem, Second Volume in The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus).
Manila: De La Salle University Press, 1975. Winner, First Prize,
Palanca Literary Contest; Winner, National Book Award of the
Manila Critics Circle.
Charts (collected poems). Manila: De La Salle College, 1973.
Winner, First Price, Palanca Literary Contest.
The Archipelago (epic poem, First Volume in The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus).
Manila: San Beda College, 1970. Winner,
First Prize, Palanca Literary Contest.
The Cave and Other Poems. Baguio City: Ato Book Shop, 1968.
Winner, Second Prize, Palanca Literary Contest.
Summer Suns (poetry, with Albert Casuga). Manila: U. S. T. Press, 1963.
“Breaking Signs,” a continuing column in Panorama Magazine
of the Manila Bulletin. The topics center on literature and arts.
Cirilo Bautista’s poems, short stories, essays and scholarly articles
have also seen publication in various anthologies, journals,
magazines in the U.S.A, England, The Netherlands, China, Japan,
Taiwan, the ASEAN region, Germany, Rumania. These include:
excerpts from Sunlight on Broken Stones, published in
World Literature Today, USA, Spring 2000; “What Rizal Told Me”
(poem), published in Manoa, University of Hawaii, 1997;
“She of the Quick Hands: My Daughter,” and “The Seagull”
(poems), published in English Teacher’s Portfolio of Multicultural
Activities, edited by John Cowen (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996).
Other works of Bautista not in book form are listed in the bibliographic
sections of Reading Cirilo F. Bautista and The Bautista Reader.
Ongoing Book Projects
“The De La Salle University Centennial Book” (First Phase).
A book history project on 100 years of De La Salle University.
Started January 2003.
“The Art of Poetry,” a continuing personal research into the nature
and elements of poetry with focus on the Philippine experience.
Started 1989.
“Notes on History as Literature.” Research paper delivered in the
Centennial Lecture series, September 1997, University of Saint La Salle,
Bacolod; to be published in book form by the said University.
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