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020			_a9789715429689 [paperback]
040			_aUniversity of Cebu-Banilad _cUniversity of Cebu-Banilad
100			_aAbad, Gémino H., _eauthor.
245			_aThe light in one's blood : _bselect poems, 1973-2020 / _cGémino H. Abad.
260			_aQuezon City : _bThe University of the Philippines Press, _cc2021.
300			_axx, 347pages ; _c23 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
505			_aContents: Mind -- Imagination -- Language -- Words -- Reading -- Writing -- Poetry -- Mood, stances -- Self and love -- Self, Family, County -- People -- Martial law -- God -- Death.
520			_a"The light in one's blood has over 100 of the poet's own choice poems from eleven books of poetry. The poems are grouped together under five interlocking themes: Mind, Imagination; Language, poetry; Self, love, family; Country, people, martial law, God and death. In his preface, the poet sums up his own view of "creative or imaginative writing," which he elaborates upon at the end of his selection in an essay. "Mind, language, and the Literary work: A poetics." He says there that any literary work ("what you will") is wrought from rather than written in a given language. The writer finds his own path through the lexical wilderness and makes his own clearing there. The ground of language which he shapes is a people's culture through their history. Himself shaped by language, he is already spoken for, but may, in his own time, speak back and clarify, even modify, a given outlook. Any langauge then (Tagalog, English), given an adequate mastery of it, can shape one's sense of country (like nation, an abstraction). And thus, our literature, from whatever language, is our people's memory. A country is only as strong as her people's memory, imagination's heartland. One's country is what one's imagination owes its allegiance to." --Backcover
521			_aAdult
541			_aPurchased _xLauron, Rodello _yGeneral Education _zGeneral Education: Literature
546			_aText in English
650			_aPhilippine poetry (English).
650			_aPhilippine poetry (English) _xCollections.
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998			_cJanna [new] _d09/10/2025
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