Kristian Cordero

Prompted by Roland Barthes’ The Preparation of a Novel, this presentation outlines how in the course of pursuing the creative life as a poet, translator, independent filmmaker and a small press publisher from one of the regions of the Philippines, I now cast myself to another kind of vita nova, by wanting to write this tetralogy, which I have happily conceived during my STIAS residency, said Kristian Sendon Cordero, STIAS Artist-in-Residence.