Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance
Pages 93-103 | Vol. 1 No. 1 | 2021
The Poetry of Everyday Things: Poetics and the World
Fidelito C. Cortes
Hunter College, US
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Abstract: A re-working of a 2012 lecture for the Philippine PEN, this essay looks at how the quotidian and the political serve as generative occasions for five poems from the collection Everyday Things by Fidelito Cortes. Poetic devices and forms explored include a sonnet, a coda, alliteration, and a short and a long polemical lyric.
Keywords: art of writing poetry, Filipino writing in America, Filipino identity, history and poetry, Philippine-American relations, polemical poems, W.S. Merwin, Ivan Turgenev, T.E. Lawrence
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