Blog Buzz from the UPNWW Fellows
Author: admin Category: From the FellowsThis one’s from Dean Alfar’s blog:
“On Thursday, we began with Alvin’s poetics, characterized by an elevated magical realism and “bagabag”. I think this is a form of literary horror and feel that, while it may have other concerns in terms of its problematics, it’s spec fic - which is really cool (his text, alternate history, has beautiful stuff like mice adopting a human)…
“Cris, who came next, is an ex-journalist who transitioning from creative non-fiction to fiction. She’s a fellow for CNF but her text is fiction, which threw me for a loop…
“Carlomar presented his poetics for his poetry, expressed in the context of his next collection. He used the language of fashion and talked about voice…
“Yesterday, Friday, we began with Jing’s poetics, which she calls “Akology”. Apparently, one of the concerns of CNF is the “I”, so it was instructive to listen to what Jing Hidalgo and the other panelists had to say…
“Iwa is simply the man. Once I read his transgressive fiction, I was hooked (and that’s hard to do given my ineptitude and low ennui levels with text in Filipino). We share similar sensibilities - especially regarding the primacy of story - and I’ll look for his books back home.”
Read the rest of his blog post here.
