Memory brings to life what is past, what in one’s experience has moved one’s soul. Imagination entails work of memory the ancient Greeks were right when they thought of Mnemosyne as the mother of the nine Muses. It may be that onomatopoeia, the mimesis of the sounds of nature and human situations, is the origin and fount of language and writing. The literary work is, of course, a work of imagination, even as language itself, ceaselessly reinvented, and its script are the finest invention of the human imagination.
As wrought, the poem’s words (I use “poem,” from Greek poiein, “to make,” as generic term for all literary works) bring the past alive to the present, for the writer brings to life what he remembers, and thereby, offers the sensitive reader a gift the reader need only open with his own imagination the writer’s present. Thus, we call any poem or short story a “literary work”: a work of language. Nything literary-poetry, fiction, play, essay-is wrought from language “wrought,” the past tense of “work,” for the writer works the language, as the farmer the soil, so their medium might bear fruit. Abrahan SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LITERARY WORKS, 2011Ĭontributors / Mga Kontribyutor Editors / Mga EditorĪn Introduction to Our Literary Scene in 2011 Gémino H. Bautista Ronald BaytanĪng Tatlong Panahon ng Panulaan ni Rogelio G. Intensities of Signs: An Interview with the Visionary Cirilo F. Traversing Fiction and Nonfiction in Travel Writing Vicente Garcia Groyonīutterfly Sleep and Other Feuilletons Rowena Tiempo Torrevillas INTERVIEW / PANAYAM Corozaġ30 Sa Kanilang Susunod Isang Kalipunan ng mga Tula Charles Bonoan Tuvilla 141 “Alamat ng Isang Awit” at Iba pang Tula Michael M. Gitnang-Araw Mixkaela Villalon POETRY / TULA The Old Man and His False Teeth Hammed BolotaoloĪng Batang Gustong Maging Ipis Carlo Pacolor Garcia ReyesĪn Introduction to Our Literary Scene in 2011 Gémino H. ICW STAFF Arlene Ambong Andresio Gloria Evangelista Pablo C. Almario Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio Bienvenido L. Almario Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo Associate Editors Ruth Jordana Luna Pison Managing Editor Anna Sanchez Publication Assistant Zenaida N. No copies can be made in part or in whole without prior written permission from the author and the publisher. LIKHAAN 6 The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature ©2012 by UP Institute of Creative Writing All rights reserved. The University of the Philippines Press Diliman, Quezon City The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature