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A habit of shores : Filipino poetry and verse from English, 60's to the 90's : the sequel to a native clearing / edited by Gemino H. Abad.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextDiliman, Quezon City : University of the Philippine Press, 1999Description: 693 pages 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 971-542-216-0
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS 9992.2 .H114 1999
Summary: in all, there are 96 poets, of whom thirty are women poets. That it includes a dew Filipino American poets is perhaps suggestive that even in America, the poet has a sense for his shores by which he forges--in its double sense, to fashion and to feign--from English a vocabulary and syntax the author all of five years between his teaching and administrative duties, offers a rich variety of poetic styles and a broad range of poetic themes. As in the other anthologies, apart from the Introduction which offers a historical survey of our poetry in English from 1905 to the present, A HABIT OF SHORES provides the reader informative Notes on every individual poem (388 poems in all), a bio-sketch on each poet (often from the poet him/herslef), and a bibliography of the sources of the poems. --Amazon.comSummary: A HABIT OF SHORES is the sequel anthology to A NATIVE CLEARING (1993). Together with MAN OF EARTH (1989), it covers almost a hundred years of our poetry in English. It comprises Filipino poets born between 1942 and 1976--more than three decades
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Filipiniana Filipiniana Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Filipiniana PS 9992.2 .H114 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3FIL2018015988
Filipiniana Filipiniana Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Filipiniana PS 9992.2 .H114 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3FIL2018015987
Filipiniana Filipiniana Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Filipiniana PS 9992.2 .H114 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3AEA0000318422
Isagani R. Cruz Collection Isagani R. Cruz Collection Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center PS 9992.2 .H114 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 3IRC0000003147

in all, there are 96 poets, of whom thirty are women poets. That it includes a dew Filipino American poets is perhaps suggestive that even in America, the poet has a sense for his shores by which he forges--in its double sense, to fashion and to feign--from English a vocabulary and syntax the author all of five years between his teaching and administrative duties, offers a rich variety of poetic styles and a broad range of poetic themes. As in the other anthologies, apart from the Introduction which offers a historical survey of our poetry in English from 1905 to the present, A HABIT OF SHORES provides the reader informative Notes on every individual poem (388 poems in all), a bio-sketch on each poet (often from the poet him/herslef), and a bibliography of the sources of the poems. --Amazon.com

A HABIT OF SHORES is the sequel anthology to A NATIVE CLEARING (1993). Together with MAN OF EARTH (1989), it covers almost a hundred years of our poetry in English. It comprises Filipino poets born between 1942 and 1976--more than three decades

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