batoganang' banwag: Unang Hugpong sa mga Pulong

3/07/2006

Unang Hugpong sa mga Pulong

Human sa duha ka tuig nga hinuwat nunot sa pagkapili sa National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) sa akong tampo nga mga hugpong sa mga balak alang sa UBOD New Authors Series, malusad na gyud sa katapusan ang akong librong kinamagulangan. Ilusad kini sa Kahayag Cafe sa ika-11 sa Marso, 2006, alas kwatro.

Ilusad pud ang unang libro sa mga sugilanon sa akong higalang Januar Yap, "Ang Aktibistang Gi-Syphilis."

8 comments:

kaiyenski said...: congratulations mike! gusto unta ko'ng mopalit. unsa-on man? ug usa pa diay...kaila mi ni januar sa una. naa ka'y email niya? gusto sad unta ko mopalit sa iyaha'ng libro...with autograph and dedication for me. tinuod bitaw. pwede?; 10:10 AM
MICHAEL U. OBENIETA said...: Hi! Naa ra ka Cebu karon? If not, you can ask a friend or any of your family member to buy straight from me. Paaria lang sa akong opisina sa SunStar. My cel is 0927-2694242.; 9:38 PM
kaiyenski said...: o sige. ako patawagon ako igso nimo ha? daghan kaayo salamat, mike!; 6:54 AM
balikbayan_box said...: ako rin i need a copy too hehehe pwede save one for me tapos kuhaan nako pag uli nako this dec2006 (puhon)

Congratulations!; 7:30 PM
Benjie Ordonez said...: mike,

congratulations on your book! I'd like to buy one as well. I'll get in touch with you soon; 4:02 PM
kendi 'ching said...: my sis and i have been wondering about the title. i mean, i am aware of the pathophysiology of syphilis. err... i think you can read my mind, sir. is it right? hehe.

and sori sa kakulitan, nangutana akong sis if how can she contribute to sunstar cebu. she writes poems, articles, etc. she sort of won a national award for that. kind of hoping she'd get published.; 8:17 AM
MICHAEL U. OBENIETA said...: Hi, Kendi! About the title of the book, "tingbitay sa iro" is a local idiom for desperate times while "iring-iring" pertains to romantic romp. So, roughly translated, it means "Romance in Troubled Times."

Tell your sister she can e-mail her contributed articles to me at yomyko@yahoo.com.; 5:52 AM
Utok Bulinaw said...: Maayong gabii diha Mr. Obenieta,
Ako gihapon ni si Utok Bulinaw, Rhona ang tinuod nga ngalan. Gusto unta ko mupalit sa imong libro, asa kini mapalit? Tulo nako kagabii sige ug binasa ani imong blog ug makalingaw kaayo. Bag-o pa kong abot gikan sa California ug uhaw kaayo ko sa mga Binisayang mga balak! (charing) Bitaw, sir, desperada pud kaayo ko nga mapublish. Duha sa akong balak napublish na sa USA nga gicompile ni Brian Douthit and D.P. Robertson (Eyes of the Poet). Ang duha napublish pud sa Our Own Voice: Filipinos in Diaspora. Inenglis ra man akong mga balak, wala pud ko mageskwela ug arts and literature. Hilig lang ko mubasa ug poetry. Puede ko mucontribute sa sunstar? Salamat Sir. Rhona; 10:28 AM

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BALHIBOON NGA TULOMANON

"Reimmersion (in native culture) is not an end in itself; it is to define more clearly the native grounds on which the Cebuano poet stands, the local parameters of language and experience, toward the end that he can stand in the world confident in the singular value of his own voice...To conserve and extend the resources to which the Cebuano poet is heir by enhancing the natural rhythms of native speech, cultivating the rich concreteness of dialect, and confronting the particulars of his social experience...

The Cebuano poet today does not come upon a language that is already there, ready to use; he has to recreate it not only out of the rawness of daily speech but summon out of language that which has already fallen away from common consciousness and use."

-- Dr. Resil Mojares,
"Cebuano Poetry: Looking Backward, Forward."

PADULONG SA PANGANOD SA ILANG MGA PULONG

"What could I say at all without my roots?... What could I say without coming to ground?... and I took no journey other than the return."
- Pablo Neruda

"And the end of all our exploring/ Will be to arrive where we started/ And know the place for the first time."
- T.S. Eliot

"The work of language deserves our greatest care, for the tongue’s fire may devour the world, or may light the way."
- Scott Russell Sanders

“Literature takes shape and life in the body, in the wombs of the mother tongue.”
- Ursula K. Le Guin

"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god… The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island."
- Derek Walcott

"We ascend, from the infinite pit of our perceptions, to the finite life of words."
- William Bronk

"The mission of poetry is to create among people the possibility of wonder, admiration, mystery, the sense that life is marvelous... To make life a marvel--that is the role of poetry."
- Octavio Paz

"Poetry has a great digestive system and can consume and recycle almost anything. It's the poet's persona that gives meaning to the process. The first important act of the imagination is to create the person who will write the poems. And that's not the end of it. We have to invent and reinvent who we are until we arrive at the self we can bear to live with and die with. Art demands of the artist the capacity for self-renewal. Without it, art withers. And so does the life."
- Stanley Kunitz

"Poetry can bring together those parts of us which exist in dread and those which have the surviving sense of a possible happiness, collectivity, community, a loss of isolation."
- Adrienne Rich

"By making us stop for the moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other."
- Rita Dove

"Poetry gives us revelations, flashes, which illuminate those things which were mysterious to us."
- Victor Hernandez Cruz

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3/07/2006

Unang Hugpong sa mga Pulong

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