No Wild Iris

• Main Author: Benitez, Christian Jil R
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2021
• Subjects: Philippine poetry; global pandemic; lockdown; homogenous time; Louise Glück; tropical archipelago; COVID-19; Creative Writing; Demography, Population, and Ecology; Human Ecology; Politics and Social Change; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/filipino-faculty-pubs/80; https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3773
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The Philippines, as a tropical archipelago, is “concurrently a country of premodern, modern, and postmodern societies[:] our rural areas, small communities, and villages, while we may sweepingly characterize them as premodern, possses at the same time some of the trappings of postmodern cities like...