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First released as a downloadable 133-page PDF-format e-book in 1999, WELCOME to Vicente-Ignacio Soria de Veyra's Gifts, Parties, Titles, Unrests: Poems from a Lost Decade (1985-1995), now an online book of poems in html format! This is only the second online poetry book released by a Filipino poet!


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Vicente-Ignacio Soria de Veyra's Gifts/Parties/Titles/Unrests





Gifts, Parties, Titles, Unrests:
Poems from a Lost Decade (1985-1992)

First published in 1999
by Down With Grundy, Publisher
179 D.M. Morales Street, Lolomboy Barrio
Municipality of Bocaue, Bulacan Province
3018 Philippines

 

Copyright © 1999 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 Down With Grundy, Publisher. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this work will be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

 

ISBN 971-92108-1-8

 

 

 

 

> ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 

> Pop

> Christmas Gift: Laptop Electronic Typewriter

> Parties

> 'Cos

> "Faggot"

>

> Carb

> 1992

> The Star System As Art

> Biz/Buzz

> Tourist Descending A Staircase

> German Movies

> Culinary Art

> Just Another Love Song (first appeared in National Midweek as "Love Poem" - Juaniyo Arcellana, Poetry Editor)

> Dumb Playboy

> Action Movies

> Bestsellers

> Animè Terror

> Recycling Tabloids

> OFW Wanted, Accused

> Video Memory

> Scuba Diving

> Punk Art

> Yellow

> Almost Famous

> Evening Gym Workout

> So-So Sociology

> Bookselling (The Worthy/Unworthy)

> Silverscreen

> Pop (Soap)

> Toothpaste

> The Physics Behind The Frisbee (or, The Frisbee Beyond Physics)

> Pop 2

> My "Made In USA" Shirt, Ferlinghetti Book, and Smile

> In Celebration Of Urban Greyness (or, Protest Against The Green)

> To The Chinese Pop Artists Of The Nineties (Wang Guangyi, Liu Wei, Yu Hong, Zhao Bandi,
   Li Tianyuan, and Yu Youhan)

> Apollo 11

>

> Warholian Profundities

> Billboard In The Air

> Portrait Of His Eminence

> Old Typewriter Today

> A Village In The '50s Called Family Love

> Pop 2 (Undeniably Famous)

> Vietnam Blues and Supermen (first appeared in National Midweek as "Big Band War" - Juaniyo Arcellana, Editor)

> World Music Appeal

> Signature Leather (first appeared in Caracoa 12 as "sheeny one (if shoemaking)" - Alfred Yuson, Editor; later published in Brown River, White Ocean: Philippine Prose and Poetry [Rutgers University Press, New Jersey, USA; 1993] as "leather excretes" - Luis Francia, Editor)

> Bauhaus (first appeared in Caracoa 19 as "Policy" - Alfred Yuson, Editor)

> Roll and Rock

> Cowgirl Shayne, 8, Among Indians

> Arrrrgh!

> Racing Cars (first appeared in Voices In The Wilderness: Writers In Their Environment [special issue of Sands and Coral Journal; 1997] as "Gasoline")

> A Republican-Leaning Channel Promises To Go After Bill Clinton

> My Way (first appeared in Sands & Coral Journal, Centennial Issue, 2001-2002 as "Waywater")

> Foreigners

> Philosopher-Dictators

> Criminals & Saints

> The Carpenter's Son

> The Subsistence Farmer

> Mini-Rainforest On A Condo Terrace (first appeared in Voices In The Wilderness: Writers In Their Environment [special issue of Sands and Coral Journal; 1997] as "Mothers")

> Roy Lichtenstein Paints Ben Day Dots On An Image Of A Book

 

> ABOUT THE POET

  


Copyright © 1999, 2004 Vicente-Ignacio 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 for their personal use. No reproduction, display, performance, multiple copy, transmission, or distribution of the works herein, or any excerpt, adaptation, abridgment or translation of same, may be made without written permission from the author. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this work will be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.


ISBN 971-92108-1-8

-- this online book of peoms was launched July, 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


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