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Tag: dasang
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College football game is on fire. So even if the state of California has been disturbed by devastating wild fire from Santa Barbara county to Orange county, I cannot help but watched the game between Notre Dame Irish and Navy Midshipmen. Well, I am a Bruin, having completed a professional program at UCLA; however, I begun to admire the Navy Midshipmen since I have watched its game against the Army last season. The Navy lost today, however they came out with a very good game and left the... Read More
dasang or Hey Poem is an ethnopoetry, and an experimental performance poetry form, adapted from a poetic hortatory discourse or speech-song used by the Higa-onon (hey-GA-oh-NOON), a tribe in the provinces of Bukidnon, Agusan del Sur, Agusan del Norte, and Misamis Oriental of southern Philippines. The word literally means “yell” or “shout”. As hortatory discourse, dasang has a common role in tribal meetings and litigation to express anger, exhort, admonish, i... Read More
I am anxiously looking forward to the third and the last US Presidential Debate, which will be held tonight at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. In line with the debate and the coming presidential election, I decided to post another experimental performance poetry, the Hey Poem, entitled Voters, Wake Up! This poem has been included in my upcoming book, THE EXPERIMENTAL dasang (Hey Poem) and 45 OTHER POETRY FORMS. VOTERS, WAKE UP! Edmund M. Industan A blot... Read More
Here we go again. Scriptwriters and actors continue to hit Filipinos below the belt. I understand. They wanted to make their TV programs draw more viewers. Nevertheless, if they do it at the expense of someone’s dignity, to the extent that it results to a skewed stereotyping, that’s a different story. The problem is that many actors are so irresponsible that they would just blurt anything a scriptwriter would put in their mouths and late night talk show hosts would scour for funny dialogue... Read More
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