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Bienvenido Lumbera, was a poet, librettist, and scholar.
As a poet, he introduced to Tagalog literature what is now known as Bagay poetry, a landmark aesthetic tendency that has helped to change the vernacular poetic tradition. He is the author of the following works: ๐๐ช๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ข, ๐๐ช๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ช๐ธ๐ข (poems in Filipino and English), 1993; ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐บ๐ฃ๐ข๐บ, ๐๐จ๐ข ๐๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ข๐ต ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฃ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ, 2002; ๐๐ข ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ข๐บ๐ข๐ฏ, ๐๐ฑ๐ข๐ต ๐ฏ๐ข ๐๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ข๐บ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ฌ๐ข, 2004; โ๐๐จ๐ถ๐ฏ๐บ๐ข๐ด ๐ด๐ข ๐๐ข๐ค๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ข ๐๐ถ๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ต๐ข,โ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ช๐ฌ๐ช๐ณ๐ข๐ฎ๐ข๐บ, 2004.
As a librettist for the Tales of the Manuvu and Rama Hari, he pioneered the creative fusion of fine arts and popular imagination. As a scholar, his major books include the following: Tagalog Poetry, 1570-1898: Tradition and Influences in its Development; Philippine Literature: A History and
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Bienvenido Lumbera
Bienvenido Lumbera
Reading through the poems in Prison and Beyond, one fryst vatten apt to get habituated to the stark diction
and militant tone of the prison poems, only to be jarred by the "poetic" manner of the pieces
written between 1958 and 1961. Jose Ma. Sisonโs first book of poems was published in 1962.
Brothers introduced readers in the ung poetโs time to poem which, in the late years of the
1950s, dared to be (against the fashion of the times) political poetry. The poems were an attempt
to break away from the aestheticist concerns of his contemporaries, but the poet had found it
difficult at that scen to forge a style demanded by his subject matter and intentions. There
simply were no models in the local tradition of Philippine writing in English he could go back to,
except such discredited or unfashionable poets like R. Zulueta da Costa ("Like the Molave"),
Aurelio Alvero ("1896"), or, at best, the expatriate Carlos Bulosan ("If You Want to
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THREE National Artists for Literature from UST were recognized on Sept. 13 for promoting Filipino culture and values through their writing in the 2017 Nick Joaquin Literary Awards.
Titans of Philippine literature andย Varsitarianย alumniย F. Sionil Jose, Cirilo Bautista and Bienvenido Lumbera were given the Guardian of the National Memory Award by theย Philippines Graphicย magazine, which hosted the event at the B Hotel in Quezon City.
Jose, a former Varsitarian editor in chief, lauded Nick Joaquin for his “incomparable” contribution to Philippine literature.
“Joaquin was perhaps the greatest writer we had after Rizal… If there is any stone keeper of our national memory, it is him,” he said in his acceptance speech.
Fictionist Alfred “Krip” Yuson received the award on behalf of Bautista, a former Varsitarian literary editor .
Christian Ray Buendia, a UST National Writers Workshop 2015 fellow, won first prize for his short story “