The Poetry of Everyday Things: Poetics and the World

Authors

Fidelito C. Cortes, Hunter College, City University of New York, USFollow

Keywords

art of writing poetry, Filipino writing in America, Filipino identity, history and poetry, Philippine-American relations, polemical poems, W.S. Merwin, Ivan Turgenev, T.E. Lawrence

Abstract

A re-working of a 2012 lecture for the Philippine PEN, this essay looks at how the quotidian and the political serve as generative occasions for five poems from the collection Everyday Things by Fidelito Cortes. Poetic devices and forms explored include a sonnet, a coda, alliteration, and a short and a long polemical lyric.

Recommended Citation

Cortes, Fidelito C. (2021) "The Poetry of Everyday Things: Poetics and the World," Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance: Vol. 1: No. 1, Article 7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59588/2782-8875.1006
Available at: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/akda/vol1/iss1/7