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Bautista: Tongue Wound Around the Corpse of Darkness: An Introduction

Albert B. Casuga

Discipline: Cultural Studies

 

Abstract:

One who has selfishly enjoyed the poetic kinship and friendly regard of the poet through the years - the University days, the sudden marriages, the eked-out books, the fathering of children celebrated in sestinas, the regalling of valued student-writers - would invariably be tempted to introduce him II Miglior Fabro. The better poet. The Major Poet. But that would be self-congratulatory. It recalls T. S. Eliot (himself a major poet) discovering for the world the poet of poets, Ezra Pound. Yet, it always seems to be one's imposition on oneself to interpret what makes the poet superior, all things being equal. For Cirilo F. Bautista is the country's most important poet today. But that, too, recalls Villa measuring A. G. Hufana.