In this poetry collection, Luisa Igloria dwells in the past—in history as well as in personal memory. There is drama that swells in paintings and in recollections, and Igloria takes advantage of this drama as much as possible. The result is a book saturated with images whose descriptions are lush and vivid. The title is pretty although a little misleading; I was led to expect a brief history of Filipinos amid the Spanish colonization.