[New-Poetry] WorldPo: Filipino wins Italian Prize

[Anny Ballardini]

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On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:57 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

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> http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=468278&publicationSubCategoryId=473
> Pinoy poet to receive Italy's top prize
> Updated May 17, 2009 12:00 AM
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> Originally from Cebu, Abad earned his B.A. in English from the University
> of the Philippines in 1964 and his Ph.D. in English literature from the
> University of Chicago in 1970. He served UP in various capacities, as
> secretary of the university, secretary of the Board of Regents, vice
> president for academic affairs, while teaching English, comparative
> literature and creative writing. Abad co-founded the Philippine Literary
> Arts Council (PLAC), which published Caracoa, a poetry journal in English.
>
> Among his many books of poetry and critical essays are Fugitive Emphasis
> (1973), his first book of poetry;  In Another Light (poems and critical
> essays, 1976); A Formal Approach to Lyric Poetry (critical theory, 1978);
> The Space Between (poems and critical essays, 1985); Poems and Parables
> (1988); Index to Filipino Poetry in English, 1905-1950 (with Edna Zapanta
> Manlapaz, 1988) and State of Play (letter-essays and parables, 1990). He
> edited landmark anthologies of Filipino poetry in English, among them Man of
> Earth (1989), A Native Clearing (1993) and A Habit of Shores: Filipino
> Poetry and Verse from English, ’60s to the ’90s (1999).
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