The Ophelia A. Dimalanta Reader: Selected Poetry, Volume 1 GENERAL REFERENCE

The Ophelia A. Dimalanta Reader: Selected Poetry, Volume 1 GENERAL REFERENCEThis volume offers the reader not a summing up of a life of poetry, but a living sum of poetry, a poetic summation of life. Although meant to be retrospective, this volume is really introspective, a kind of paradoxical way station before continuing on a journey with no end in sight. Dimalanta is indeed a poem still to be written, but the very writing is a poem. The Ur poem that German critics love to look for is in this volume, but it has to be looked

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Fajardo’s wide-ranging analysis exposes the gaps in dominant narratives of Filipino seamen in national

'if I'm like a piece of bok choy then you are probably  a piece of broccoli

Bridge Generation members were caught between two worlds-the America of our birth and the memories of the Philippines our parents left behind

Using the poetry of Leyte and Samar as a specific sample

is expected to reach more than two million by the next century

and Part Three - the common everyday expressions in Filipino with English equivalents

continually try to define their identity as Filipino

Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 311 pages

The author brings enriching mementoes from pictorial images of the Filipino freedom struggle as well as appropriate reminders of the numerous encounters

including ethnic studies academics

- Ellen Kaufman