TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garcellano, Edel E.
TI  - Vanishing history & other poems
SN  - 9789715426879
AV  - PR 9550.6 .G164 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Quezon City
PB  - University of the Philippine Press
KW  - Philippine poetry (English)
KW  - sears
N2  -  poems that limn both personal disappointment and the banal horrors of the Philippine Kafkaeum, but somehow, despite their withering lamentation of unrequited passions, manage to whisper to the reader that there is hopelessness, but not for us. In spite of well ... almost everything, and even of itself, in Garcellano's hands the poetic impetus yields community and  therefore life. -- Jonathan Beller,  Pratt Institute (Source: http://uppress.com.ph/node/116); These are wry and weary poems, astutely observed and ruthlessly, indeed mercilessly, penetrating
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