In Ordinary Time: Poems, Parables, Poetics 1973-2003 by G̩mino H. Abad

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In Ordinary Time: Poems, Parables, Poetics is G̩mino H. Abad's own selection of his poems and parables from 1973 to 2003. Ten each of these are arranged under six themes which suggest, generally, a possible terrain of signification: Things (each things special signature), Words (not meaning but meaningfulness), Self (the imagination, the self's primary activity, creates our humanity), Love (the self's deepest moral sense), Country (what one's imagination owes its allegiance to), and God (every person's imaginations Word). A poetics of the word runs through a number of poems and parables, and ends with the poet's essay, What for Me a Poem Is. It is an essential poetics of finding one's own path through language and making one's own clearing there.
A Philippine import. Limited copies available.

Publisher : The University of the Philippines Press (January 1, 2004)
Language : English
Paperback : 169 pages
ISBN-10 : 971542435-X
ISBN-13 : 978-97-1-542435-6
Item Weight : 1.01 pounds


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