Ambit's Gambit (Albert B. Casuga Literary Blog)

Ambit's Gambit is Albert B. Casuga's blog for his poetry, fiction, essays, literary theory, literary criticism, art criticism, and commentary on life, living, and the human condition.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

CESAR LEYCO AGUILA'S BETWEEN TWO WORLDS

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" Between Two Worlds , a first novel by CESAR LEYCO AGUILA is a saga spanning four centuries and revolving around a family, the Monter...

THE AESTHETICS OF LITERATURE

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Philippine poet and National Artist nominee CIRILO F. BAUTISTA wrote the Introduction to my Aesthetics of Literature . A lot of what he sai...

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

THE TEXTBOOKS THAT NEEDED TO BE WRITTEN

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In his blog, "Critic At Large," Dr. Isagani Cruz discusses institutional education without textbooks. Are textbooks really necessa...

Monday, March 9, 2009

LOL Literatures in Other Languages: Filipino English

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10 March 2009 Filipino English Here's an interesting quote from American T. Inglis Moore, writing in 1930: "The Filipino has to lea...

LOL Literatures in Other Languages: Example of Multilingual Criticism?

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09 March 2009 Example of Multilingual Criticism? I don't have enough money to subscribe to online journals (not to mention that I am an ...

Saturday, March 7, 2009

LOL Literatures in Other Languages: Rolando Tinio's Valediction sa Hillcrest

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07 March 2009 Rolando Tinio's Valediction sa Hillcrest It's not exactly a hot topic on the Web (with only 134 entries on Google), bu...

Friday, March 6, 2009

LOL Literatures in Other Languages: English as today's French?

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05 March 2009 English as today's French? From the pro-English website antimoon.com comes this 14 February 2009 post by one of its follow...

Thursday, March 5, 2009

THE FIRST REPORT

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A Short Story THE FIRST REPORT He came in from the cold. She asked the usual questions when he came in to help her with her youngest daughte...

Monday, March 2, 2009

LOL Literatures in Other Languages: Pronunciation: A TRADITION OF ORAL POETRY

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03 March 2009 Pronunciation To my comment on 19 December 2008 that "One of the most difficult aspects of English for those not born to ...

Saturday, February 28, 2009

LOL Literatures in Other Languages: Blake's symmetry

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19 December 2008 Blake's symmetry Will someone please enlighten me about the pronunciation of William Blake's "symmetry" i...

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ALBERT B. CASUGA: ALBERT B. CASUGA, a Philippine-born writer, lives in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, where he continues to write poetry, fiction, and criticism after his retirement from teaching and serving as an elected member of his region's school board. He was nominated to the Mississauga Arts Council Literary Awards in 2007. A graduate of the Royal and Pontifical University of St. Thomas (now University of Santo Tomas, Manila. Literature and English, magna cum laude), he taught English and Literature (Criticism, Theory, and Creative Writing) at the Philippines' De La Salle University and San Beda College. He has authored books of poetry, short stories, literary theory and criticism. He has won awards for his works in Canada, the U.S.A., and the Philippines. His latest work, A Theory of Echoes and Other Poems was published February 2009 by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House. His fiction and poetry were published by online literary journals Asia Writes and Coastal Poems recently. He was a Fellow at the 1972 Silliman University Writers Workshop, Philippines. As a journalist, he worked with the United Press International and wrote an art column for the defunct Philippines Herald.

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