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Dr. Linda R. Andaya released her first Pangasinan book entitled Gamal tan arum ni'ran antikey ya istorya . A collection of Pangasinan short stories. It's because of this book that I came out with the following sonnet:
sonito 216
(ed libron Gamal tan arum ni'ran antikey ya istorya nen Dr. Linda R. Andaya)
aliling to'y tanol na tambuyog
ono hambayo'd gilig na dayat
lalagyaten to'y kailalakan
ed akualan na dilin salita
sarayan antikey ya istorya
so manliliing ed saray musia
pian ombulaslas so panulatan
dia ed Parnasu na Caboloan
egpang irayan pakarukdukan
na panangaro tan pangoliran
tongtong irayan binmabalitok
ed litiraturan Pangasinan
parlasan mo'y matam kaluyagan
isasalming tonia so kulturam
I just got a complimentary copy of 40 Mga Tulang Alay sa mga Martir na Kabataang (published by kilometer64 ) during the Bloggers Night at the Fudge, EspaƱa last Nov. 27.
A gesture and a salute to Spin, Rustum, Alex, Psy-CoH, Kapi, Mark Angeles and the rest of the contributors to the anthology.
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209th sonnet added to Malagilion: Soniton Pangasinan .
sonito 209
(para ed si Maria P. Magsano*)
magter ya ina na kaoayangan
tan kanepegan da'ra'y bibii
makuykuyep la'y silew na luyag
ya pinarlangan yo na inkorit
ya kombilay tan bilay-aoaran
dinmedeen la'ra'y sumusulat
pigpigara la'ra'y umaanlong
ya oala ni'y nagnap ya liknaan
para'd abangonan ya salita
tan pinulyan ya litiratura
matabtabang met la'y pakataoay
na sinmulming ya kailalakan
ed imparongo yon pangoliran
liing yo la'y musia'y Pangasinan
*Maria Prado Magsano was born on February 3, 1883. She studied at the University of the Philippines and ...
Santiago Villafania is a bilingual Filipino poet who writes in English and in his native language of Pangasinan. Born in Tuliao, Sta. Barbara, Pangasinan on 31 January 1971, Villafania graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Pangasinan in 1991. Villafania advocates for the resurgence of Pangasinan as a literary language. His works in the vernacular are some of the most representative, if not among the few that comprise that Pangasinan contemporary literary body. In his first book Balikas na Caboloan (Verses from Caboloan), the Pangasinan anlong resurfaces asserting its tradition amidst intersecting and pollinating genres and literary influences. His book of poems, Malagilion: Sonnets tan Villanelles , is an attempt to open the propylaea of literary renaissance in Pangasinan. This second book by Pangasinan’s leading poet today is impressive in both form and substance. Villafania has created 300 sonnets and 50 villanelles in his own language that a...
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