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008			060104s1966 000 0 eng d
050			_aPL 6058.9.H4 _b.R513 1966
100			_aHernandez, Amado V., _934913
245		0	_aRice grains : _bselected poems / _cselected poems Amado V. Hernandez ; selected and translated E. San Juan,. Jr., ; edited by Nan Braymer.
260			_aNew York : _bInternational Pub., _cc1966
300			_a64 pages : _b22 cm.
500			_aPhotocopy.
520			_aAffirms the discordant realities of life and nevertheless project,in explicit sympathy with the collective spirit,an imminent breakthrough on all fronts to the fundamental exigencies of survival and happiness on earth.Most the poems in the collection were written in the "bartolina"-the segregated dungeon-of Muntinlupa,the state prison.When he wrote to Dr.Jose P.Laurel from his prison cell in New Bilibid Prison,July 11,1954,Hernandez describes the travesty of due process of law,the mockery of all standards of truth and justice at his trial.He discussed his long-drawn-out,cruel ordeal,he wrote:"The enemies of the common tao charged me with communistic activities because they could not charge me with dishonesty,with selling out the workers to the employer and politicians,or robbing the laborers of their legitimate earnings... When he received Republic Cultural Heritage Award,the judges expressed their view that his poems were of a high order....,and that his poetry"doesn't blink the facts of life,and yet it affirms the prevalence of the spirit."
650			_aPhilippine poetry (English) _2sears _918868
650			_aPoetry
700			_aBraymer, Nan _950515
700			_aSan Juan E. _950516
942			_cIRC
999			_c62290 _d62290