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.

Friday, January 8, 2016

DIALOGUES ON PLANNING FOR A TREEHOUSE

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MY POEMS TODAY ARE ABOUT BUILDING HOUSES --- TREEHOUSES. These were prompted by a KarmaTubeOrg. post on an artist who builds mini-hou...
Thursday, January 7, 2016

SOMEWHERE, AN OLD QUESTION

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MY OTHER POEM TODAY is also on kindness. It is the root behind the question as old as Eden: "Am I my brother's keeper?"...
Wednesday, January 6, 2016

A SONG OF TWO GAMES

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MY POEMS TODAY: A stab at defining what it means to be happy. That is our business while we are alive, isn't it? Let's work o...
Tuesday, January 5, 2016

HE DREAMT WITH OPEN EYES: A CYBORG DREAM

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MY POEM TODAY was prompted by an Aeon Magazine essay on "Cyborg Dreams" of technology liberating man from the shackles of t...
Monday, January 4, 2016

A GODLIKE WHIMSY

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MY POEM TODAY was prompted by my envy of an artist who can work under any pressure---the street artist. Not the graffiti artist. The one w...
Friday, January 1, 2016

POEMS: ART AND BEAUTY (For Willy, Jun, and Al+)

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A painting by Philippine National Artist Fernando Amorsolo GIVING BEAUTY BACK Transfigured, we come Back to old haunts like ...
Wednesday, September 30, 2015

COMING HOME: LIGHT THROUGH A CRACKED MIRROR

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MY POEM TODAY is for a friend who goes back to old haunts and finds there are memories that need to be purged of their pain. Where, what p...
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Monday, August 31, 2015

THE LEAP OF FAITH: NEVER TO SAY NOT YET

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Why must one believe? How can one believe? Why believe in Life, Love, and Letting Go? Why and when must one make his leap of faith, or...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

LITTLE SHADOWS AT SUNDOWN

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MY POEM TODAY goes back to the sea for those old sounds, the old sights, so familiar with my growing up. I was an only son, and had si...
Saturday, August 15, 2015

WHEN LOVE IS MOST NDARLY ITSELF

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MY POEM TODAY IS ABOUT WHEN LOVE IS MOST NEARLY ITSELF. These poems were prompted by the post of Thich Nhat Hanh on How to Love, Love ...
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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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