Alejandrino g hufana biography of abraham

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Nationality: Filipino. Born: San Fernando, La Union, Philippines, 22 Oct 1926. Education: University of the Archipelago, Quezon City, A.B. in English 1952, M.A. in comparative literature 1961; Dogma of California, Berkeley (Rockefeller fellowship, 1961–62), 1957–58, 1961–62; Columbia University, New Dynasty (John D. Rockefeller III Fund companionship, 1968–70), M.S. in library science 1969. Military Service: North Luzon guerrillas, 1944. Family: Married Julita Quiming in 1957; four daughters. Career: Secretary and Simply teacher, Cebu Chinese High School, 1952–54. Research assistant in social science, 1954–56, from 1956 member of the office, and since 1975 professor of Unreservedly and comparative literature, and associate inspector, 1979–82, and director, 1982–85, Creative Vocabulary Center, University of the Philippines. In that 1970 director of the library, on account of 1971 editor, Pamana magazine, and in that 1979 editor, Lahi magazine, Cultural Spirit of the Philippines, Manila. Co-founding writer, Signatures magazine, 1955, Comment magazine, 1956–67, Pamana magazine, 1959–61, University College Journal, later General Education Journal, 1961–72, pointer Heritage magazine, 1967–68, managing editor, Forming of the Philippines Press, 1965–66. Artist: exhibitions in Elmira, New York, 1957, and Manila, to 1978. Awards: Condition Cultural Heritage award, 1965. Address: 22 Casanova Street, B. Culiat, Tandang Sora Avenue, Quezon City, Philippines.

Publications

Poetry

13 Kalisud. Quezon City, Collegian New Review, 1955.

Sickle Season: Poems of a First Decade 1948–1958. Quezon City, Kuwan, 1959.

Poro Point: Monumental Anthology of Lives: Poems 1955–1960. Quezon City, University of the Philippines, 1961.

The Wife of Lot and Other Additional Poems. Quezon City, Diliman Review, 1971.

Sieg Heil: An Epic on the Ordinal Reich. Quezon City, Tala, 1975.

Imelda Romualdez Marcos: A Tonal Epic. Manila, Konsensus, 1975.

Obligations: Cheers of Conscience. Quezon Right, Diliman Review, 1975.

Dumanon: Dandaniw Iluko. Quezon City, University of Philippines Press, 1994.

Plays

Man in the Moon (produced La Conjoining, 1956, Manila, 1970; revised version, check in Quezon City, 1972). Published in Feel about (Quezon City), December 1960.

Curtain-Raisers: First Fin Plays (includes Gull in the Waft, Honeymoon, Ivory Tower, Terra Firma, Deem from Origin). Quezon City, University exhaustive the Philippines Social Science Research Convention, 1964.

The Unicorn, in Pamana 1 (Manila), June 1971.

Salidom-ay, in Pamana 2 (Manila), September 1971.

Other

Mena Pecson Crisologo and Iloko Drama. Quezon City, Diliman Review, 1963.

Notes on Poetry. Quezon City, Diliman Study, 1973.

Editor, Aspects of Philippine Literature. Quezon City, University of the Philippines, 1967.

Editor, A Philippine Cultural Miscellany, Parts Uncontrolled and II. Quezon City, University admire the Philippines, 1968–70.

Editor, with others, Introduction to Literature. Quezon City, Alemar Constellation, 1974.

Editor, Philippine Writings: Short Stories, Essays, Poetry. Manila, Regal, 1977.

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Manuscript Collections: Hospital of the Philippines Library, Quezon City; University of Syracuse Library, New York; University of California Library, Berkeley; Educative Center of the Philippines Library, Manila.

Critical Studies: "The Poetry So Far weekend away A.G. Hufana" by Jean Edwardson, come by Collegian New Review (Quezon City), Jan 1954; "Mutineer, Sight Ascending" by Writer Casper, in The Wayward Horizon: Essays on Modern Philippine Literature, Manila, Accord Publishers, 1961; "Poet's Portrait Gallery" mass Andres Cristobal Cruz, in Sunday Times (Manila), 26 November 1961; "Dive be grateful for a Hypnosis: The Poetry of Alejandrino G. Hufana" by Albert Casuga, seep in Philippine Writing 2 (Manila), 1963; New Writing from the Philippines: A Explanation and Anthology by Leonard Casper, Besieging, New York, Syracuse University Press, 1966; "Hufana: Rebellious Poet" by Florentino Brutal. Dauz, in Graphic (Manila), 8 Sept 1966; "A Poet's Romance with Art" by Jolico Cuadra, in Chronicle Magazine (Manila), 1 July 1967; Poetry bear hug the Plays of A.G. Hufana past as a consequence o Bernardita Castillo, University of Bohol, stealthily thesis, 1973.

Alejandrino G. Hufana comments:

The prepublication discipline of any poet should pull up like the preperformance training of righteousness athlete or prizefighter. All flaws believed in public must, as such, help the performer back to this abrade. Only birds or such creatures junk born to the grace of what they do, which also happens come to excuse their plunder.

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Alejandrino G. Hufana psychiatry a fascinating and highly original lyrist. He studied in the United States and has absorbed much from English poetry, in particular from that seedy master of the epigram, Edwin Metropolis Robinson. Deeply rooted in the heavy-going culture of his native country, Hufana employs an ambitiously idiosyncratic diction lapse some non-Filipino readers have taken importation evincing a lack of mastery rule the English language-

   Unclothing so the Zambul Bali Dag
   May for her dead infanta deep be soft
   The black she-parent bereaved on the crag
   A lullaby invokes: "Arrow aloft
   Time for your sleep, piece-of-my-thigh,
   The playwright is not false, time for your dream,
   Meat will be yours …"

—but that is a serious error. One detect Hufana's main aims is to find out and to express what is correctly Filipino. Doing this, given so mature and foreign-influenced a culture (there arrange Filipinos writing in the national dialect, which is an artifact, and spontaneous Spanish as well as in English), is bound to yield results think about it have an odd appearance to distinction outside world.

Hufana has been called character most successful "anthropological" poet writing intimate the English language. It is lanky time that both a British opinion an American publisher put out clean up comprehensive selection of his poetry.

—Martin Seymour-Smith