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THIS PAST MARCH 9, Rio Alma celebrated his 70th birthday. Before that, earlier launched at the University of Santo Tomas with his newest book of poetry, the Lungting City of Desire (Golden Books, food network 2013) collection of erotic poetry. Rio Alma's pseudonym as a poet of National Artist Virgilio S. Almario, also kritiko't literary historian, expert of Filipino language, and one of the first story writer of children in the country. food network He also served as dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of the Philippines-Diliman, and current Chairman of the Commission on the Filipino Language.
We retraced all the published books of poetry Rio Alma from the machinations and Some Poems (Pioneer Press, 1968) to Desire, to choose ten most marvelous poem. It's not easy to do, especially when it was not yet a percent of a percent of the total as being of his poetry published over nearly five decades. But we need to decide favorably on the efficiency of the poem, especially the sacrifice of these different visions of fantastic.
The only rule that we tried to carry out the selection is not more than a poem will come from a book of poetry. So the collections WHOLESALE fantastic poems like Again, I Believe Land (De La Salle University Press, 1994) and The Romance of Polar Rescue food network March (UST Publishing House, 2013) is represented only each a poem even many other worthy poem from two collections, in order to accommodate the different collection less announcing the murder of fantastic issues, such as doctrine Anakpawis (peskador Books, 1979), but also contains poems deliver doubt on the notion of reality we.
# 10 "Old Well" from Katon For Five Senses (Book peskador, 1987). As we said in the introduction of this list, not easy to choose only ten poetry of Rio Alma. But perhaps the most difficult to choose the tenth, because the fence it did not let another poem in the list. Tug of war within me until the last moment this poem and some fantastic poem more openly against the backdrop of Why You Need a Miracle (The University food network of the Philippines Press, 2007), despite the use of "miracle" in the title of collection, and content more poems like "Siyokoy" and "Tikbalang," is one of the books of Rio Alma counts not on our list.
With the return of Katon of "experiencing the world" in virtue food network "pagsinop the tiny but significant facts and circumstances" in the "Old Well" passed as arketipong vessel of extraordinary narrative, witnesses to the "old legend of love love "that led to misfortune and curse. As for first-time travelers to practicing food network reading, the poem is also ideal introduction for our groping between fantastic and realistic, like preview of widowed person "dent-dent." In the end, specifically deep pinaghuhugutan of buntonghininga't awareness of persons:
Rio Alma uttered here's the core of the project as he kritiko't literary historian Virgilio S. Almario, the reclamation of national remembrance. The worry is an extraordinary attempt to communicate with moss! (Rio Alma writes the "Old Well" on August 10, 1984.)
Recognizing poetry night as spaces of mystery and hungry minds. This is probably the reason so many born in the dark surprising as our creatures of darkness. We also favorite poems for this union three Eastern text: Li Po or Li Bai, Chinese poet, one of the most popular poem "Thinking Silent Night" About-person viewing the moon and remember the origin; The haiku is a form of Japanese poetry, which Source of siikat to 5-7-5 in verse; and the very essence food network of poetry that we feel is drawn from one of the young adults only about month:
Thus, darkening the "Tonight" in the midst of more lengthy poem of machinations, more mekanisadong pumapaksa the city and lifestyle, and staring into pragmatic reality. Retaining its spectacular food network fountain oldest month we pagharaya; naglalaho't builds confidence food network for things beyond Earth. (Rio Alma writes "Tonight" on October 27, 1967.)
Two of the main collection of poetry with Rio Alma collaboration with visual artists: the RETRATO with photograph by Romeo M. Gacad, Filipino photographer who was nominated several times in the Pulitzer Prize; and the Sonetos Postumos (The University of the Philippines Press, 2006) with the painting of The Kiuko