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In a lecture on poetry, Kenneth Koch strongly advocates that your Voice “can never be shaken off no matter the influence.”

Chapter 8 of this book depicts a macro-scaled case study of this hypothesis. In the adoption of English, and the integration of craft honed by Americans, writers such as Arguilla and Villa Garcia still make the Filipino sing through. Detriment or not, your identity will penetrate all words.