Never before released elsewhere, WELCOME to the world premiere of Vicente-Ignacio Soria de Veyra's How People Respond to Them, Yet Know Them Not, a collection of never-before-published-anywhere-else pieces and
the sixth online book of poems to be released by a Filipino author!
Vicente-Ignacio Soria de Veyra's
How People Respond to Them,
Yet Know Them Not
How People Respond To Them, Yet Know Them Not: Poems Published 2004
by Banana-Cue Books, Publisher
179 D.M. Morales Street, Lolomboy Barrio
Municipality of Bocaue, Bulacan Province
3018 PhilippinesCopyright © 2004 Vicente-Ignacio Soria de Veyra
All rights reserved. Readers are welcome to view, save, file and print out single copies of this work for their personal use. No reproduction, display, performance, multiple copy, transmission or distribution of this work, or any excerpt, adaptation, abridgement or translation of same, may be made without written permission from Banana-Cue Books, Publisher. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this work will be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.
to my brothers and sisters
Acknowledgment. The first five poems in this online book first appeared in the Literati Magazine (a now-defunct US-based literary e-zine), Issue No. 2, Winter 2004-05.
1. A gun
Wan Sunday (or, Running Into A Beach-Loving Poet In A Popular Chinese-Filipino Supermarket Within A Mall)
A Poem Forgiving The American Who Called Jesus, Nazareth's Everyman, While Shaking An Impatient Head
2. Trained to smell
Professor Pacifism's Pupils (Unavailable)
(UNDER CONSTRUCTION FROM THIS POINT DOWN EXCEPT "That Oxymoron, Conventional Wisdom," "De-Crystallization," "Training Prized Young Mujahedins," "Escape from Planet Sago," "How People Respond To Them Yet Know Them Not," "Five-Metaphor Offensive," and "ABOUT THE POET" AT THE BOTTOM)
Cellophane World: A Tribute to Poets
Audio-Video World: Tribute to Soul Singers
3. Cause of effects
That Oxymoron, Conventional Wisdom (Available)
De-crystallization (Available)
Training Prized Young Mujahedins (Available)
Escape from Planet Sago (Available)
How People Respond to Them, Yet Know Them Not (Available)
Five-Metaphor Offensive (Available)
Prayer to my Judge/Jury/Dependent In Law
> ABOUT THE POET (Available)
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Soria de Veyra. All rights reserved. Readers are welcome to view, save,
file and print out single copies of thiswebpage and the poems linked to
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copy, transmission, or distribution of the works herein, or any excerpt,
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-- this online book of poems was launched August, 2004
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Links to other sites on the Web
The Other Voices International Project
Professor Valentin Assidao's Courses at Cerritos College
Filipinolinks Literature and Poetry Sites
Literary Kicks on The Beats
The Nobel Foundation