The Poetry of Everyday Things: Poetics and the World

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 an...

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Main Author: Cortes, Fidelito C.
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Published: Animo Repository 2021
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Online Access:https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/akda/vol1/iss1/7
https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/akda/article/1006/viewcontent/6_Cortes_The_20Poetry_20of_20Everyday_20Things_Akda_201_281_29.pdf
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Institution: De La Salle University
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Summary: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.