Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

I. The literary practice of complexity -- Myth and Writing: Notes from the field -- The gay self as myth: Confessionalism and mythmaking in gay lyric poetry -- Translating the real: Rethinking postcolonial resistance in Philippine anglophone literature -- Villa, Montano, Perez: Post coloniality and gay liberation in the Philippines -- Answering an Oft-Preached bigotry: spirituality and the bakla -- II. Desirous grace -- Edith L. Tiempo: A tribute -- Fakery and faith: A review of Floy Quinto's Fake -- In memoriam -- Journeying into the Deep: Donsol -- On Jay and Indie films -- Paradoxical Philippines -- Reaction to Vicente Rafael's "Spanish Death=Filipino Freedom" -- Philippine contemporary art -- On bigotry and translation -- Theory and the question of the native -- To the "Poets-Critics" -- Art and suffering -- The university of the Philippines press -- Writing and research in the Philippines -- The crisis in our midst -- The Lumad that is us -- LGBT discourse in the Philippines -- The literary uses of Mythology -- III. From "Letters to J" -- IV. Remedios -- Lev -- Kitty and Vergil -- Paolo.

This book wants to emphasize the provisionality of these particularly forms of freewheeling expression, flagging perhaps the provisionality of all forms, of all expressions, especially if it is supposed to be eminently personal, which of course is a fiction, since it is the impersonal imperatives and structures of language that speak in and through us, in the beginning as in the end.