Commend Contend/Beyond, Extensions

by Edith L. Tiempo

As the title of this volume indicates, the substance of practically all the poems in this collection displays the considering of both the contrastive viewpoints of commending and disproving – an artistic treatment that attempts a cohesion of a two-sided view of the nature of truth.

Genres: Poetry

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Edith L. Tiempo, poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary critic is one of the finest Filipino Writers in English whose works are characterized by a remarkable fusion of style and substance, of craftsmanship and insight. Her poems are intricate verbal transfigurations of significant experiences as revealed, in two of her much anthologized pieces, "Lament for the Littlest Fellow" and "Bonsai." As fictionist, Tiempo is as morally profound. Her language has been marked as "descriptive but unburdened by scrupulous detailing." She is an influential tradition in Philippine literature in English.

Together with her late husband, writer and critic Edilberto K. Tiempo, they founded (in 1962) and directed the Silliman National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete City, which has produced some of the Philippines' best writers.

She was conferred the National Artist Award for Literature in 1999.

(from wikipedia.org.)

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