Louie Jon A. Sánchez

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Marian Rivera as Bise-Presidente Creon as Leni Robredo in Password: Oedipus Rex.
This arrived yesterday from #artinthepark2021: “Embrace” by Pandy Aviado (Etching; 4.5 x 6.5 inches; 2017).
Book 5: Rodrigo dela Peña’s newest poetry sequence Tangere is an ingenious unweaving, unraveling of José Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere, coming at a most opportune moment. The poet touches on the master-narrative’s climate—the social, the historical—and exposes its stark volatility in bearing witness to the very ills and tragedy of colonial life. Both Noli and its sequel El Filibusterismo are narratives familiar to us Filipinos, we think, since they are enshrined by law to be read in schools and are thus fully entrenched in our curricula and consciousness. Tangere insists that we don’t, and quite eloquently, as it offers a critique of our obliviousness in its rumination of the changing temper of the novel’s chapters. This is an aspect easily glossed over because of prevailing dispositions of reading, which are not even close enough and are often weighed down by a default patriotic bent. The poems then reimagine the novel as they collectively reassemble a structure of feeling that has long been lost because of our misguided study of the novels, and the consequent “veneration without understanding” of Rizal’s life and works. In poetic form, Dela Peña’s reading becomes an invitation to us all “who come/ and leave like the wind,” we who are children of our “own/ undoing,” to “take a seat to see/ how everything unravels,” especially at a time of crises and oppression, when the spirit of Rizal needs to be reawakened from eternal slumber. #2021readings #quarantinereadings
Bedside readings.
Last year, I got this Daruma doll during a day trip to Shirakawa-go in Gifu. I immediately read up on the ritual which instructs bearers to draw it a left eye, pray for a wish, and finally render its right eye once the wish is fulfilled. All things considered, I guess I still got what I needed. I gave the doll its due. I will still keep it in the altar to remind me about wishes that must always be rooted in gratitude.

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