Philippine E-Journals

Six Women Poets: Inter/Views with Angela Manalang-Gloria, Trinidad Tarrosa-Subido, Edith L. Tiempo, Virginia R. Moreno, Tita Lacambra-Ayala, Ophelia A. Dimalanta Edna Z. Manlapaz and Marjorie Evasco Aria Edition, Inc., Manila 1996

Michael C. Rubio

 

Abstract:

Imagine sitting in a sacred circle, made so by the presence of

poets considered as figures, key to the shaping of the tradition of

Philippine poetry in English. In this circle you take part in the

shaping of views; theirs, and your own. This is what the book, Six

Women Poets, a collection of inter/views, establishes with the reader:

a sense of familiarity in the presence of the sacred