Manolo Lozada
Edna Zapanta-Manlapaz
Prof. Felipe B. Miranda
Trixie de Guzman
JJ S. Henson
Susan Ortega
Betty R. Ventura
Dr. Helen Caintic
PSHS Library (Dr. Caintic)
Prof. Tess Batangan
Prof. Ces Conaco
Dr. Edwin Decenteceo
Archie & Chinita Q. Abad
Dr. Joey Balmaceda
Dr. Tess Batanes
Dr. Frank G. Flores
Profs. Pepe & Fe Domingo
Profs. Raul & Lorna Segovia
Marietta Yandoc
Wilfredo Pascua Sanchez
Ken Trinos
Seema Chhabra
Dr. Serg Simangan
Dr. Greg del Pilar
‘Bubbles’
Dr. Carlo A. […]
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Awesome poems, both: “on the sabbath for my brethren” and “song of journey to the stars,” these 2, no, make that 3 are the standouts, along with “Lyric 1″ w/ch shows fg’s early mastery of the sonnet form. His poetic IQ was high. His poetry is graced w/ abundant wit. i much admire its parsimony […]
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[I’m posting this here while I’m waiting for a copy of Prof. Randy David’s main speech, Bryn David’s short speech about the book, and Xenia David’s introduction of Randy David.]
Thank you to all whom we invited and who shared with us their precious time by coming to this booklaunching.
It had been fg’s dream to publish […]
FG David as a campus poet belonged to the ‘group’ of young poets writing in the ’60s: Ernesto Manalo, Jose M. Lansang, Jr., Leopoldo Gerardo, Gemino Abad, and the younger poets like Wilfredo Pascua Sanchez, Jose Nadal Carreon, Erwin Castillo. It was a time of great ‘intellectual ferment’, to borrow a phrase much-used at the […]
Where: 2/F GT-Toyota Hall of Wisdom, UP Asian Center, Diliman, Quezon City
Time: 2-5 p.m.
Guest Speaker: Randy David
Attire: Semi-formal
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This book gathers for the first time ever the hitherto uncollected poems of FG David. It is a collector’s copy, hardbound and printed in high-quality ivory paper. FG David was cited by Prof. Leopoldo Y. Yabes as one of the noted young poets in Prof. Yabes’ article for the Poetry Encyclopedia International. More known as […]
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November 17 [1961]
Ethel:
You asked me this at the Cubao rotunda: “F.G., why do you want to see me get off at Sta. Mesa?” Your question shook me up and shocked me much. Why? Because it sounded hard. But I could not say it sounded impolite, for I could not think of you […]
Continue reading about 2 Letters, Both Written November 17, but 6 Years Apart
FG, like most writers, wasn’t above ridiculing himself. In one letter, he wrote:
When I am about to reach my day
To become a doctor among the dull in the fish school
To resume croaking affectatiously in horrid big classrooms
And grade bluebooks that only mouth what everybody knows
How must then I commence
And what shall I presume.
The Original:
NOW I […]
i. This is not a flower
This is spots of color
Petals and leaves
Keeping in themselves
A solid nut of seed
That mated you to one another.
[from a wedding anniversary card dated 7 july 71]
ii. The smell of flowers is sweet
But that of imagined ones is sweeter
For even sweetness turns purer
When in mind it is distilled.
[from a card dated 19 […]
My Lolo likes to tell about my “Sacred Heart”
A pinkish skin shaped like a heart atop my breast
That was obvious for anyone to see upon my birth
It was the first news of me he told to Lolo Nap.
Or to La Leni who was talking then only to my Lola
My grand angel, the […]