Vicente-Ignacio Soria de Veyra's War
Photos
(The First Online Books of Poems
by a Filipino Author!)
for Cecile, Miguel, and
Gabriel
IN this Poetry homepage for Vicente-Ignacio Soria de Veyra's poetry are links to the first online books of poems by a Filipino! These online books are
Alternative Prosaicnesses;
Yet Know Them NotVicente's first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth poetry collections earlier released as PDF-file e-books (except the last), now online in html format!
All the above first five volumes were published by Down With Grundy, Publisher (now Banana-Cue Books, Publisher, the publishing name that carries the sixth volume).
FIRST, some acknowledgments:
In the preface to his first poetry e-book, Alternative Prosaicnesses, Vicente gave special thanks to "the formative shocks granted the author by the Silliman University Creative Writing Program, under its founders the late Edilberto Tiempo (the novelist) and his wife Edith Tiempo (illustrious poet/fictionist/critic), also under then workshop coordinator Merlie Alunan (the acclaimed poet), all with whom this poet spent a year and a half of disciplining his restlessness; likewise to regular panelists there, namely the distinguished writers Alfred A. Yuson, Cirilo F. Bautista, Ophelia A. Dimalanta, Cesar Ruiz Aquino, and Marjorie Evasco, from whose persons a young poet learned a lot -- from how to get a tan without really trying, to how to get a girl while naturally feeling bubblegummy or religious. This was in the period 1987-89." It was certainly there that this poet underwent the knife of the old New Criticism, the new post-structuralism, and even Marxist and feminist criticism.
Enough of this name-dropping, you might say. But certainly also acknowledgments are due the University of the Philippines Likhaan Center for Creative Writing's faculty and staff of 1988, particularly then-Center Director Amelia Lape�a-Bonifacio, the poet and professor Gemino Abad, the late legendary fictionists Francisco Arcellana and Rogelio Sicat, poet and novelist Domingo Landicho, and playwright Nonilon Quea�o. Confirmation there of the worth of Vicente's works may have been "overly generous" (the poet's words), but yet valued and -- if we might add -- what Vicente really needed.
Acknowledgments were also handed to his brother, the poet Nino Soria de Veyra (whose poems collection is presently being asked by Banana-Cue Books, Publisher to be released as an e-book), who did the initial compu-encoding of the poems seen here; "and finally my parents and family, who've alternately put up with my artiste-isms and given encouragement in more ways than one."
Finally, extra-special thanks went to his wife Cecilia, "who gave a large share of inspiration towards the resolution of my artistic pursuits."
1-2. ALTERNATIVE PROSAICNESSES (1999)
First released as a downloadable 174-page PDF-format e-book in 1999, WELCOME to Vicente-Ignacio Soria de Veyra's Alternative Prosaicnesses, now an online two-in-one book of poems in html format including the collections Paramaterial Dialectics and Perpetual Regime! It's the first online poetry book by a Filipino poet!>>You can start by first reading the author's Foreword to the book titled "Why Publish An Online Poetry Book?" Or you can
>>click here now to go to this first Filipino online book of poems!!!
3-4. GIFTS, PARTIES, TITLES, UNRESTS (1999)
This volume includes the collections Pop and Pop II, supposedly also of the Alternative Prosaicnesses series but here under a different volume title:
>>click here to go to this second Filipino online book of poems!!!
>>click here to go and read this third Filipino online book of poems!!!
6. DECAYED: TRAVEL POEMS (2000)
>>click here to see and read this fourth Filipino online book of poems!!!
7. IN THE LEVEL OF GODS (2001-02)
First released as a downloadable 75-page PDF-format e-book in 2002, WELCOME to Vicente-Ignacio Soria de Veyra's In The Level of Gods, now an online book of poems in html format! This is only THE FIFTH ONLINE POETRY COLLECTION RELEASED BY A FILIPINO AUTHOR!
>>click here to go to Vicente's fifth online book of poems!!!
8. HOW PEOPLE RESPOND TO THEM, YET KNOW THEM NOT (2004)
First released here in a sort of world premiere, this has never been offered as a downloadable PDF-format e-book. This then is Vicente-Ignacio Soria de Veyra's SIXTH ONLINE POETRY BOOK, LIKEWISE ONLY THE SIXTH ONLINE BOOK OF POEMS RELEASED BY A FILIPINO AUTHOR!
>>click here to go to this all-new online book!!!
9. BEING WARAY: POEMS (2004- ) -- IN PROGRESS
Now here's a link to another site within Geocities that displays Vicente's poems in Waray (Samar-Leyte language). It is a site cum collection in progress, boasting of both standard poetry and hypertext poems (e-poems, if you will). The poems have translations into English by the poet.
>>click here to go to Vicente's Waray poems site!
-- poetry homepage created February 3-18, 1999
-- last additions November 29, 2002
-- last emendations August, 2004
Copyright � 1999, 2001, 2002, 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.
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ALSO SEE VICENTE'S JAVA INTERPRETATIONS OF POEMS
BY FILIPINO POET OPHELIA ALCANTARA DIMALANTA AT
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POETIC OUTPUT (IN WARAY [ SAMAR-LEYTE LANGUAGE])?
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