Patricia of the Green Hills and Other Stories and Poems

Patricia of the Green Hills and Other Stories and Poems

Author: Maximo D. Ramos

Publisher:

Published: 2018-10-29

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9781729386415

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"Patricia of the Green Hills" is a collection of Filipiniana poems and short stories with reflections of life and folkways while growing up in the Philippines. Dr. Ramos never relaxed his own personal pursuit of the Muse and continued to write short stories, poems, and essays. At the same time, he devoted special attention to serious research on Philippine mythology and folklore. All these were done as he taught and performed administrative duties at the Philippine Normal College and later at the University of the East. We know that his legacy will fire the imagination of Filipino students and inspire them to know more about their own heritage, history, folkways and folklore and to write them down for others to enjoy and appreciate. I. Poems FAUNA November Highway Sign The Cobra Ambush The Spring Prize The Gecko The Calf The Crocodile A Bleeding-Heart Bird VILLAGE AND CITY Barrio Scene Burial Jar d104 Procession Past Midnight in the Barrio Manila Street Scene When I See a Barongbarong Neighborhood View from the Highway Stone Calvary WAR The Beach Two Years After Mount Samat Brown Men Seashore La Jeunesse de L'Annee The Fathers Carol-Not for Christmas Recalling Tale of How an Antique Isle Letter from Mindanao YOUTH To Virgins Taking an Examination The Way My Truelove Bathes Love Song to Patricia The Quarrel Youth FLORA Bamboo Birth A Tree in Bloom A Nameless Plant The Fence The Tree They Felled Dawn in a Kaingin JUNGLE Motortruck in the Jungle The Python Dawn on the Maguindanao River Liguasan Marsh Voice of the Wilderness Hunter LEGENDS Offering The Old Man of the Termite Mound The Banana Stone A Girl Does Not Sweep Her Yard A Bus Passenger There Are Merfolk The Elf Tree A Vanishing Hitchiker The Mangmangldt Gardening SEA AND SKY Atoll The Bather Pearl-Diver Island Vintas Ocean Wings Under the Moon II. Short Stories Summertime in Lomilog Entry November 9 Planting Time and the Crows The Witch's Wood Air Duel The Storm Death of the Old House Big House, Big House Plane Crash in the Ricefield A Nipa House in Suburbia The Man and the Jungle The House at the Bend of the Road Who Sink to Rest Jungle Patricia of the Green Hills The Belle of the Wedding Party In the Gully Death in a Jungle The Bells of Santiago Flame Trees in the Jungle Visit in the Night Uncle Sabas and the Jeepney A Homecoming Christmas Far Away Chin Bo-Hing Ambush The Python Shadows Weekend in Ballay Dark Valley Green River, Brown River


Our Scene So Fair

Our Scene So Fair

Author: Gémino H. Abad

Publisher: UP Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9715425593

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Our Scene So Fair consists of nine critical essays that seek to clarify the poetic tradition that Filipino poets in English have established over the first half of the last century.


Boyhood in Monsoon Country

Boyhood in Monsoon Country

Author: Maximo Ramos

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2018-11-14

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9781731252982

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Maximo D. Ramos wrote a number of books detailing the history and culture of the Philippines. Boyhood in Monsoon Country is a collection of little essays about village life as a boy. It is not just the content here, which presents a fascinating range of topics from the food to the bird life to even the mythological creatures that kept him and his friends scared of entering into the woods -- what really speaks to the reader is the lyrical and conversational quality of the writing. Ramos's observations are often hilarious, often poignant, and always stream of consciousness, like a warm grandfather relaying his adventures to his grandchildren who gather around him to take it all in. As Ramos explores his own life and times, his invitation is a simple but profound one: now that he has shared his life, he implores the reader to think about and celebrate their own. Reading Boyhood in Monsoon Country feels like an exchange of lives-- a conversation that lets us into Ramos' world, and encourages us to think of the humanity that unites us all. Contents: Early School Days We Had Gizzards of Iron We Had Food Specials, Too Our Peer Group The Games We Played The Birds We Knew Our Homely Names The Harmful Gods of Our Countryside We Had Just About All We Needed A Note to Agents of Change The Magic of Old Place-Names Holiday in Black Sweet Were the Uses of Necromancy Picnic Holy Week in Monsoon Country Glossary of lloko Terms