I visited Solidaridad Publishing House yesterday hoping to see Sionil F. Jose in person. I am supposed to give him my book proposal but he was not around when I came. I left the poposal for my books, The Serpent Tongue and Malagilion despite the fact that the person in-charge of the bookshop told me that they're no longer into publishing. Anyway, will try to follow it up next week to find out if Sionil Jose has an inkling of interest to my proposal.
Also submitted some pages to Dr. R. David Zorc about Pangasinan conjunctions and affixes for the book I am writing & collaborating with a fellow Pangasinense for the McNeil Technologies. I hope to come out with something substantial in a couple of months or so.
And here is a sonnet for the Pangasinenses who believe that our literature is going nowhere. Perhaps they were right, but then the grammaton cleric of Pangasinan is not giving up.
sonito 128
“poetry has no dominating place
in the mind of Pangasinan”
anggapo’y kaoalaan o lugar
na anlong ed pinablik a luyag
laut la ed saray tobunbalo natan
ya oala’d no anto ‘ran linangan
matabang la’d dila ra’y salita
a sigagalang a pinalesa
na Makauley ed kanonotan
da’ra’y dinidyus tan umaanlong
dia’d inkasil da’ra’y dayon musia
kinmuyep so masnag a lioaoa
ed muling na musia’y Pangasinan
pilatek ni’y oala’d kalangoeran
so manganlong ed bayes a dila
pian narengel ira ed biek taew
In the News: Heaney: Power of poetry lies in effect on individual
While the violence and political strife of his native Northern Ireland have found their way into his poetry, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney is a realist when it comes to the limits of what language can accomplish.
"I don't think (poetry) can accomplish much in the face of political unrest. It's up to the government to deal with that," Heaney recently told ThisWeek. "Poetry will not change the situation. Poetry can speak to the sense of justice in the individual consciousness. ... I'm talking of really poetry that isn't agitprop protest, poetry that is, as Yeats said, 'an attempt to hold in a single thought reality and justice.'
Also submitted some pages to Dr. R. David Zorc about Pangasinan conjunctions and affixes for the book I am writing & collaborating with a fellow Pangasinense for the McNeil Technologies. I hope to come out with something substantial in a couple of months or so.
And here is a sonnet for the Pangasinenses who believe that our literature is going nowhere. Perhaps they were right, but then the grammaton cleric of Pangasinan is not giving up.
sonito 128
“poetry has no dominating place
in the mind of Pangasinan”
anggapo’y kaoalaan o lugar
na anlong ed pinablik a luyag
laut la ed saray tobunbalo natan
ya oala’d no anto ‘ran linangan
matabang la’d dila ra’y salita
a sigagalang a pinalesa
na Makauley ed kanonotan
da’ra’y dinidyus tan umaanlong
dia’d inkasil da’ra’y dayon musia
kinmuyep so masnag a lioaoa
ed muling na musia’y Pangasinan
pilatek ni’y oala’d kalangoeran
so manganlong ed bayes a dila
pian narengel ira ed biek taew
In the News: Heaney: Power of poetry lies in effect on individual
While the violence and political strife of his native Northern Ireland have found their way into his poetry, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney is a realist when it comes to the limits of what language can accomplish.
"I don't think (poetry) can accomplish much in the face of political unrest. It's up to the government to deal with that," Heaney recently told ThisWeek. "Poetry will not change the situation. Poetry can speak to the sense of justice in the individual consciousness. ... I'm talking of really poetry that isn't agitprop protest, poetry that is, as Yeats said, 'an attempt to hold in a single thought reality and justice.'
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