Description:A Habit of Shores is the sequel to A Native Clearing (1993). Together with Man of Earth (1989), it covers almost a hundred years of Philippine poetry in English. It comprises Filipino poets born between 1942 and 1976--more than three decades; in all, there are 96 poets, of whom thirty are women poets. That it includes a few 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 to speak the language of the blood.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Habit of Shores: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English, 60's to the 90's (The Sequel to A Native Clearing). To get started finding A Habit of Shores: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English, 60's to the 90's (The Sequel to A Native Clearing), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
693
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
University of the Philippines Press
Release
1999
ISBN
9715422160
A Habit of Shores: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English, 60's to the 90's (The Sequel to A Native Clearing)
Description: A Habit of Shores is the sequel to A Native Clearing (1993). Together with Man of Earth (1989), it covers almost a hundred years of Philippine poetry in English. It comprises Filipino poets born between 1942 and 1976--more than three decades; in all, there are 96 poets, of whom thirty are women poets. That it includes a few 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 to speak the language of the blood.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Habit of Shores: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English, 60's to the 90's (The Sequel to A Native Clearing). To get started finding A Habit of Shores: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English, 60's to the 90's (The Sequel to A Native Clearing), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.