Greg Brillantes for national artist

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The story begins in Baguio City, in a bookshop called Mount Cloud, tucked away in a nondescript corner across Brent School and accessible, like anything else in this mountain city, after going through winding, sloping roads. Taxi driver doesn’t know Mt. Cloud, but he knows Brent School.

It was here where we purchased a copy of Gregorio C.

Try to redact him at your own peril, as more than one editor found out when attempting to parse down a published essay on the Feast of the Black Nazarene, for rerun in a broadsheet or magazine with limited space. The title alone would take a good chunk of the page, but the point is not only is poetry lost in translation, the best fiction might be found in the cutting room floor, there to sprout separate stories in themselves while the mother lode goes on sucked of its juices.

In Excerpts from an Autobiography of a Middle-aged Ghostwriter with Insomnia, Brillantes is having fun with words, revels in the narrative with a slew of puns before the heyday of the wordsmith Cesar Ruiz Aquino, you can almost see him dribbling those paragraphs with worthy zigzags and crossovers on the way to basket with a tomahawk dunk. A number of his contemporaries are given parodic names good for a laugh or two, but this doesn’t mean there are no hidden profundities.

There’s a story set in Baguio, Lost, which is as good as any to put the writer and fictionist Greg Brillantes in context, and could inspire similar works based in the mountain city you could smell the pine and rosemary in the pages, like the film Kung Mangarap Ka’t Magising, and by this time you may wonder why hasn’t the writer been named national artist for literature, perhaps for lack of a...

One thing I remember about Angara – the father, Edgardo, not the son: there was no running water in the restrooms of the College of Arts and Sciences when I started my academic life at the University of the...

 

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