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The Second World: Poems
Rafael Antonio C. San Diego’s first book of poems is truly remarkable. From poem to poem – or poem or prose, if you will – one is struck by their inimitable finesse. Here is an original, innovative, and sturdy voice in our own poetry’s heartland where the language forged from English is of our sweat and blood in our own scene and time.
–Gémino H. Abad
In The Second World, San Diego apprehends the imagined and ignites it with the simplest of fires, into the kind of poetry that "draws all our secrets/ under one cloud." He reclaims utterance not by shunning the real, but by biting straight into its hidden pith: "I think I know/ why I cannot understand/ everything," San Diego writes, with humility that is as effortless as it is powerful. And we are reminded, too, of the earnestness, the compassion, the gratefulness and awe necessary to make the mortal endure.
–Mikael de Lara Co
–Gémino H. Abad
In The Second World, San Diego apprehends the imagined and ignites it with the simplest of fires, into the kind of poetry that "draws all our secrets/ under one cloud." He reclaims utterance not by shunning the real, but by biting straight into its hidden pith: "I think I know/ why I cannot understand/ everything," San Diego writes, with humility that is as effortless as it is powerful. And we are reminded, too, of the earnestness, the compassion, the gratefulness and awe necessary to make the mortal endure.
–Mikael de Lara Co
- GenresPoetry
75 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
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January 31, 2015
"The Second World is a collection of poems written by Filipino author Rafael Antonio C. San Diego. I’ve read it out of curiosity and to put rhyming words in my head.
His poems are unique in a manner that it has its own simplicity. I also appreciate the way he uses places or things found in the Philippines. Sometimes he speaks about emotions, afterlife, beliefs, and even animals. Most of the poems I appreciated are the longer ones. I could even relate to some. However, he is also capable of sharing dark thoughts and shares the view of a drunkard."
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His poems are unique in a manner that it has its own simplicity. I also appreciate the way he uses places or things found in the Philippines. Sometimes he speaks about emotions, afterlife, beliefs, and even animals. Most of the poems I appreciated are the longer ones. I could even relate to some. However, he is also capable of sharing dark thoughts and shares the view of a drunkard."
Read more: http://gypsyreads.tumblr.com/post/109...
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