09-23-2016, 10:37 PM
To reiterate that edit in the first post, I tried {=4} in the contents, and all I got was wonksy stuff. Am I doing something wrong?
My favorites of the stuff I first posted are The Dog-Eater and The Ordinance, while of the stuff I later posted, San Juan and The River Singing Stone. But there is plenty, plenty, plenty more to go.
@Achebe: The poetic tradition in Filipino (though Filipino is for the most part structured like Tagalog, it does incorporate a lot more words and junk, being the main thrust of the whole national language program the former president Quezon initiated, so that our official language is more appropriately called Filipino, Tagalog referring only to the language of the region --- or at least that's why my teacher in Filipino literature told me) is much older than that in English, but I don't see many poetry collections in either Filipino or English. One of the complaints of Dr. Abad in the book is that some peeps think the pinnacle of English literature in the Philippines is the short story, and even though the anthology is a great way of proving otherwise, searching through bookstores leave me only dry wells, the places are either too expensive or commercialized. And as for Filipino poetry -- I'm a bit of a bad egg concerning our national language, as I seem to be more comfortable thinking and speaking in English, even as I was raised to speak in Filipino! Maybe it's because of all that cable television I watched as a wee lad ------ but here's two notes: most bookstores here have specific sections catering to Filipiniana, so whatever the case, Filipino literature is much harder to come by here than English; and the anthology I got came from my University (may have even been sponsored by it), so as much as it is representative of English poetry made by Filipinos, and even English literature as an organ of the nation's identity, it's not really representative of popular taste. I did have a look through my University's press service the other day, and they had a bunch more poetry collections in there, although their titles were English, so I assumed --- they were modern, and at that time I was looking for the prequel to this book, A Native Clearing, and only that book, having only a student's "salary", which contains English poetry written by Filipinos from the 1900s to the 1950s (thus I think containing Jose Garcia Villa, whom I feel like you've already heard of).
My favorites of the stuff I first posted are The Dog-Eater and The Ordinance, while of the stuff I later posted, San Juan and The River Singing Stone. But there is plenty, plenty, plenty more to go.
@Achebe: The poetic tradition in Filipino (though Filipino is for the most part structured like Tagalog, it does incorporate a lot more words and junk, being the main thrust of the whole national language program the former president Quezon initiated, so that our official language is more appropriately called Filipino, Tagalog referring only to the language of the region --- or at least that's why my teacher in Filipino literature told me) is much older than that in English, but I don't see many poetry collections in either Filipino or English. One of the complaints of Dr. Abad in the book is that some peeps think the pinnacle of English literature in the Philippines is the short story, and even though the anthology is a great way of proving otherwise, searching through bookstores leave me only dry wells, the places are either too expensive or commercialized. And as for Filipino poetry -- I'm a bit of a bad egg concerning our national language, as I seem to be more comfortable thinking and speaking in English, even as I was raised to speak in Filipino! Maybe it's because of all that cable television I watched as a wee lad ------ but here's two notes: most bookstores here have specific sections catering to Filipiniana, so whatever the case, Filipino literature is much harder to come by here than English; and the anthology I got came from my University (may have even been sponsored by it), so as much as it is representative of English poetry made by Filipinos, and even English literature as an organ of the nation's identity, it's not really representative of popular taste. I did have a look through my University's press service the other day, and they had a bunch more poetry collections in there, although their titles were English, so I assumed --- they were modern, and at that time I was looking for the prequel to this book, A Native Clearing, and only that book, having only a student's "salary", which contains English poetry written by Filipinos from the 1900s to the 1950s (thus I think containing Jose Garcia Villa, whom I feel like you've already heard of).