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, May 26, 2010

NEW POEMS; A SEASON'S FIRST HARVEST (JANUARY TO APRIL, 2010)

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(Photo courtesy of Bobby Wong) Last January 30, 2010, I collected the poems I had written in the latter part of 2009 and labelled the c...

Friday, May 21, 2010

PART 3: MAGUINDANAO MASSACRE RAGE POEMS: A REVIEW

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CLEANSING HUBRIS WITH POETRY Why did the Maguindanao Massacre happen? What sort of madness triggered this injurious blight? Man’s inhumanity...

Thursday, May 20, 2010

PART 2: MAGUINDANAO MASSACRE RAGE POEMS (A REVIEW)

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SOME RAGE POEMS FROM SALUD’S ONLINE ANTHOLOGY A rage expressed in dripping sarcasm, impunity, and, indeed, disdain (seen from the viewpoint ...

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MAGUINDANAO MASSACRE RAGE POEMS: A REVIEW (PART 1)

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The Maguindanao Massacre: An Anthology of Rage SCREAMS: “SHOUTING OURSELVES HOARSE, PRODUCING NOTHING”? It’s past April Fool’s. Someone in t...

Thursday, April 29, 2010

A RAGE POEM ON THE MAGUINDANAO MASSACRE

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SCREAM: A MAGUINDANAO DIRGE* She lost her rubber slippers in the mud when Crackling mayhem scuttled their march to town Ripping through thei...

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Monday, April 26, 2010

IF: AN EARTH DAY POEM

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AN EARTH DAY POEM: IF It’s when I’m weary of considerations,/And life is too much like a pathless wood.../I’d like to get away from earth a ...

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

HOLOCAUST IN MY MIND (A REVISION) AND THE WRITER'S NOTEBOOK

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CRUISE FARES 3: HOLOCAUST IN MY MIND (A QUICK REVISION AND AFTERTHOUGHT) Yobo of Sarnia “In ascending steep climbs, the Himalayan Sherpas ho...

Friday, April 16, 2010

CRUISE FARES 3: HOLOCAUST IN MY MIND

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CRUISE FARES 3: HOLOCAUST IN MY MIND Yobo of Sarnia, Ontario, Canada “In ascending steep climbs, the Himalayan Sherpas hold each other on th...

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

CRUISE FARES 2: EDO AND UMBERTO OF BRAZIL

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Umberto and Edo de Brazil --- It rained at the Grand Anse beach in Grenada. Writer’s Notebook on the Cruise Hurriedly, furtively putting on ...

Saturday, April 10, 2010

CRUISE FARES: THE VIEUX MADAME, 84

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A CRUISE FARE: THE VIEUX MADAME, 84 She held on to the shorter side of her skirt, a Creole form of rainbow radiance raw on rays, and took th...

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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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