Indigenous peoples of Kalinga and other Cordilleran descent in the Philippines sing and dance to a folksong called "salidummay," which has no direct translation into English but which speaks to the idea, "this is life." The samples used in this track are from recordings of mountain workers singing and dancing on the way home.
Music by Ina Cariño.
Ina Cariño is a poet, musician, and artist with an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University. Their poetry appears or is forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, Waxwing, New England Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. Ina is a Kundiman fellow, a Best of the Net finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and a recipient of a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. They are the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award for their manuscript Feast, forthcoming from Alice James Books in March 2023. Most recently, Ina was selected as one of the four winners of the 2021 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize.