Espada, Martin, ed., Poetry Like Bread: Poets of the Political Imagination from Curbstone Press, Curbstone Press, 1994.

This is a unique anthology of thirty poets whose focus is writing about political topics. Settings range from Algeria and Vietnam, to Los Angeles and Philadelphia. This collection has something to offer anyone interested in how literature and poetry, in particular, have a political voice.

Fenton, James, All the Wrong Places: Adrift in the Politics of the Pacific Rim, Little, Brown Publishers, 1988.

Fenton offers what he knows and has experienced in the Philippines during the "snap revolution," as well as what he has learned and experienced in Vietnam and Korea. The book offers a keen understanding and a valuable perspective on the situation in the whole Pacific.

------, "The Snap Revolution: James Fenton in the Philippines," in Granta, 1986, pp. 34-155.

Fenton offers a unique account of the Marcos regime. His...