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What they say about Dr. Cirilo F. Bautista |
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For Cirilo F. Bautista—Already you write like a Master: with genius in language and genius of imagination. No poet in contemporary America or Britain has your magnitude. Therefore, to salute you is my honor. —National Artist Jose Garcia Villa |
Bautista is the long-needed break-away from the lyric tradition that Villa created…It’s good to come up a world like Bautista’s which exists apart from his thoughts of it. His density is the quality that sets him
apart from the other young poets of his
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For Cirilo: I’ve asked myself—What is it that sets your poetry apart? I think, now, I know—it’s the philosophy.” —National Artist Francisco Arcellana |
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The Archipelago is fine piece of writing. —Paul Engle, America poet and Director, International Writers Workshop, state University of Iowa, USA |
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Bautista is a better epic poet than any American I know. —George Starbuck, American poet |
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My admiration for the heart and spirit of Cirilo F. Bautista. —William Saroyan, American fictionist |
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Bautista is truly a good poet. —Bienvenido N. Santos |
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Bautista’s poetry, at its best, is musical, without many consonantals in the alliterative sections, but with firm, resonant end rrhymes. He is one of a very rare group of Filipino poets that can use full, half and slant rhymes without descending to doggerel or becoming silly of half-baked—a real achievement. —Ricaredo Demetillo |
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This monumental work [The Archipelago] which is not easy to laud completely, as is the case with the major, foundation-shaking works, promises a new poetics, which engages the full responding faculties of any reader by giving free play to the creative imagination at its most inventive and most agile, and by treating experiences more lively, more intensely by taking stock of the role of history in the life of the artist, and specifically, in the life of any other man. —Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta |
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This is Bautista’s Telex Moon, the second book in his planned Trilogy of Saint Lazarus. We should all delight in its unmistakable triumph. It is a masterwork, asserting once again that Bautista has no peer within the often times fragmented realm of current Philippine poetry. —Alfred A. Yuson |
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Bautista’s principal difference from other poets lies in the extension of his vision across the centuries and in the variety of verse forms
used to individualize that vision’s evolution. |
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One cannot read The Archipelago and not look at contemporary events with a more dispassionate and more penetrating perception. —Elizabeth Perkins, Australian critic |
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In 1991, when I was reading all of Bautista’s poems, including a number that he chose not to include in earlier collections, I was aware that, to represent his poetry in a Native Clearing, I would have to respond, not to what I might take as his principal ideas but rather, to his experience as a poet of our own historical place and time… I was so deeply moved by the poet’s experience of our history in his bones that, after I had made a selection of Bautista’s poems for A Native Clearing, I felt my response could best be delivered as a poem. I called it “That Space in Time. —Gemino H. Abad |
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This [Stories] is a remarkable collection of five short stories by one of the most respected poets of the Philippines. —Paulino Lim, Jr. |
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Bautista is still, il miglior fabbro.
—Eric Gamalinda |
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On Cirilo F. Bautista & His Works: Published Reviews & Citations |
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Collection of Studies/Criticism on Cirilo F. Bautista and His Works (1969-1995) Manila: De La Salle University Press, 1995. |
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Recent Newspapers’ Reviews of the Works of Cirilo F. Bautista |
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Yuson, Alfred. “An Ocean of an Epic.” Philippine Star. Apr 16, 2001. Yuson, Alfred. “Review: Bullets and Roses.” “Philippine Star.” Mar 24, 2003. De Vera, Ruel S. “Being Amado V. Hernandez.” Philippine Daily Inquirer. May 19, 2003. Godinez, Ortega Christine. “Breaking the Silences of History.” Philippine
Daily Inquirer. Dec 8, 2002. Santos, Tomas. “The Philippines as Epic History.” Today. Aug 19, 2001.
Dec 11, 2004. Chancoco, Jose Jason L. “Way of the Quicksilver (Book Review: Galaw ng Asoge.)” Makata Vol 5. Sep 14, 2004.
Manila Bulletin. Apr 2, 2001.
Sep 6, 2004 |
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Selected Articles and Essays Citing Cirilo F. Bautista and His Works |
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Abad, Gemino H. “One Hundred Years of Philippine Poetry.” Likhaan Anthology of Philippine Literature in English. 1998. Reyes, Soledad S. “Reckoning with the Past. Understanding the Present.” Sanghaya. 2002. De Ungria, Ricardo. “Philippine Literature in English.” NCAA Online. Lumbera, Bienvenido. “Young Writers Dream of Going Canonical.”
Sanghaya.
2001. Yuson, Alfred. “The Most Charming Books of 2001.” Philippine Star.
Jan 6, 2001.
“Manila Critics Circle and the National Book Awards.” NCAA Online. Tejuco, Felicisimo A., Jr. “Cirilo Bautista: Poet in Labor.” The Varsitarian Literary Magazine. 2000. |
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Recent News Articles on Cirilo F. Bautista |
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Galan, Ralph Semino. “Love’s Centenary.” Philippine Daily Inquirer. Dec 5, 2004. Melendez, Eric. “Grudge Videoke Match and other ‘Unwriterly’ Episodes.” Philippine Daily Inquirer. Dec 5, 2004. “Bautista’s New Novel Out.” Philippine Star. Jul 18, 2004. “Bautista’s New Novel Now Available.” Daily Tribune. May 30, 2004. Teodoro, John Iremil. “Pahinga.” Bandillo ng Palawan Online. May 30, 2004. “Cirilo Bautista Releases New Novel.” Sunday Times Magazine. May 16, 2004. “Bautista’s New Novel Now Available.” Malaya. May 6, 2004. “Bautista’s New Novel Out.” Manila Bulletin. May 1, 2004. Cimatu, Frank. “Eating and Licking the Poems of Others.” Sun Star Baguio.
Aug 24, 2003.
“Cirilo Bautista Launches New Book Today.” Philippine Star. Jun 28, 2003.
“Poet Cirilo Bautista Launches Latest Book.” Manila Bulletin. Jun 21, 2003. Melendez, Paolo Enrico. “The Veneracion Hotel’s ‘Theater of the Absurd’.” Philippine Daily Inquirer. Jun 6, 2004. |
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