Carlos A. Angeles

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Carlos A. Angeles


Born
in Tacloban City, Leyte, Philippines
May 25, 1921

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When in 1964 the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature included Poetry for the first time, the highest honor went to Carlos A. Angeles for a stun of jewels. In that year too, for the same book, Angeles received the Republic Cultural Heritage Award for Literature...Years afterwards in America, Angeles would ruefully shake his head over those honors. An immigrant there since 1978, his Muse had kept silent for twenty years, from 1958 when he served as public relations manager of PanAm Airways to 1978...But then, in 1984, he wrote again, "tried to go on an even keel." Memory was his Muse. "You know, I love this one image in Stones for Ibarra—a cork that had been taken out of the bottle. Like memories, the cork just won't slide back into ...more

Average rating: 3.65 · 34 ratings · 4 reviews · 3 distinct works
A Bruise Of Ashes: Collecte...

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“Memory is this, not the target dead on center
but the hurt unwept.”
Carlos A. Angeles, A Bruise Of Ashes: Collected Poems
tags: memory

“It is the sea pursues a habit of shores.”
Carlos A. Angeles, A Bruise Of Ashes: Collected Poems

“... I touch your absence here
Remembering the speeches of your hair.”
Carlos A. Angeles, A Bruise Of Ashes: Collected Poems



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