XI. GEMINO ABAD

“The real is the poem. Hence, for the poet—our figure for the writer as artist—to write is to get real.”

GEMINO ABAD

 

 Gémino Henson Abad is a literary critic from Cebu, Philippines. His family moved to Manila when his father, Antonio Abad, was offered professorships at Far Eastern University and the University of the Philippines. He earned his B.A. English from the University of the Philippines in 1964 and Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Chicago in 1970. He served the University of the Philippines in various capacities: as Secretary of the University, Secretary of the Board of Regents, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Director of the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing. For many years, he also taught English, comparative literature and creative writing at U.P. Diliman.

 

 Here are some of his popular works:

• Fugitive Emphasis, 1973
• Poems and Parables, 1988
• In Ordinary Time: Poems, Parables, Poetics, 2004
• In Another Light, 1976
• The Space Between, 1985
• Father and Daughter, 1996
• A Makeshift Sun, 2001
• State of Play (essays), 1990

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