Bayani’s third poetry collection considers how we might cultivate life in times of oppression and upheaval.
 
”Reading Bayani’s tender, searing collection is like bearing witness to a modern-day harana: a lover under the beloved’s window, singing out from the heart. Only here the beloved is the world; the future; the possibility of liberation. Bayani’s lucid, questing poems sing to these endangered things with a voice full of heartache, fury and hope— knowing too that a serenade, like any poem, is a way to share the breath of life. These poems do just that: they see that which is nearly lost, nearly gone and then they go to work—they resuscitate.”

Elaine Castillo, author of America Is Not the Heart, How to Read Now, and Moderation

Cover Image by Kimberley Arteche