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Pieces of String and Other Stories
- GenresShort Stories
140 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1984
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Tita Lacambra-Ayala
6 books24 followersWriter, poet and multimedia artist Tita Lacambra Ayala was born in Sarrat, Ilocos Norte but grew up in Antamok, Benguet. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Education (BSE) Major in English, minor in History, at the University of the Philippines in 1953. Tita is one of the most celebrated Filipino poets in English with her work receiving numerous awards. She has authored many books in her distinguished career, among them Sunflower Poems (1960), Friends, The Confessions of a Professional Amateur (prose) and Camels and Shapes of Darkness in a Time of Olives (poetry).
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I had fond memories related to Panagbenga, staying at home, in Kitma, in Parisas, in Cab Hill, in Chapis, in all the lovely, secluded, or peripheral barangays of Baguio where the boom boom pows and boom boom boxes of La Trinidad flowers could not reach.
Maybe I was reading Tita Lacambra-Ayala’s Pieces of String and Other Stories, taking a “ritualistic nap;” or Julian Villaruel’s “QC Room Reviews,” speaking of “potted plants whose existence straddles between real and simulated,” and “stuffed toy and special pillows [as they] conspire on one corner.” One time, after the weekend festivities in Baguio, during Session in Bloom, shawarma and vigan empanada conspired in the city’s longest street, grilling the people with its wafting, meaty smoke.
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(*There’s a likely chance that this is the same “Ferguson Road” in the opening sentence of Tita Lacambra-Ayala’s Reality in Search of Character: “Diego, funding away at the breakthrough, reminisces on the blasphemy of last night’s perimeter, wanton and bleak like Ferguson Road in the rain with a storm going on and the electric lines blinded with wind and dead fans suddenly gone silent like shadow.” In the back page of Pieces of String and Other Stories, the collection where Reality is included, Tita’s North-to-South stints are in display: born in Ilocos Norte, studied in Baguio, worked in laguna and then taught in a university in Mindanao. One letter in Letters of a Starving Artist is in Ilokano, beginning with “Sapay coma iti Dios ta madanonna cayo daytoy suratco nga sicacaradcad quen silalagip capacam amin.” You can translate this sentence for me and email me at ivanlabayne@gmail.com para magets ko naman ‘yung sinabi ng character.)
I had fond memories related to Panagbenga, staying at home, in Kitma, in Parisas, in Cab Hill, in Chapis, in all the lovely, secluded, or peripheral barangays of Baguio where the boom boom pows and boom boom boxes of La Trinidad flowers could not reach.
Maybe I was reading Tita Lacambra-Ayala’s Pieces of String and Other Stories, taking a “ritualistic nap;” or Julian Villaruel’s “QC Room Reviews,” speaking of “potted plants whose existence straddles between real and simulated,” and “stuffed toy and special pillows [as they] conspire on one corner.” One time, after the weekend festivities in Baguio, during Session in Bloom, shawarma and vigan empanada conspired in the city’s longest street, grilling the people with its wafting, meaty smoke.
https://chopsueyngarod.wordpress.com/...
(*There’s a likely chance that this is the same “Ferguson Road” in the opening sentence of Tita Lacambra-Ayala’s Reality in Search of Character: “Diego, funding away at the breakthrough, reminisces on the blasphemy of last night’s perimeter, wanton and bleak like Ferguson Road in the rain with a storm going on and the electric lines blinded with wind and dead fans suddenly gone silent like shadow.” In the back page of Pieces of String and Other Stories, the collection where Reality is included, Tita’s North-to-South stints are in display: born in Ilocos Norte, studied in Baguio, worked in laguna and then taught in a university in Mindanao. One letter in Letters of a Starving Artist is in Ilokano, beginning with “Sapay coma iti Dios ta madanonna cayo daytoy suratco nga sicacaradcad quen silalagip capacam amin.” You can translate this sentence for me and email me at ivanlabayne@gmail.com para magets ko naman ‘yung sinabi ng character.)
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