The thing with feathers : my book of memories
Hidalgo, Cristina Pantoja
The thing with feathers : my book of memories / Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo - Manila : University Santo Tomas Publishing House, c2017. - xvi, 333 pages ; 23 cm.
I. Early apprenticeship or everything I needed to know about journalism…Once upon a time, under the pine trees in the old campus – Ghost of Christmas past -- "Usahay” -- Remembering Norma -- Casa Blanca -- Fugitive comfort -- Elegy to my lost home -- Some books are forever -- On books and bookstores -- Literary curiosities -- Para akong namatayan -- II Peacocks and roses in Perth -- Bangkok November -- Hong Kong: Ladder streets, a cabbage patch doll, a long girls' sleepover, and looking for "Araby" but finding a tiangge -- An Adventure (of Sorts) in Guangzhou -- III The writinig life, then and now -- "Literary influences" and the like -- Retracing my sojourns -- Edging toward biography via the profile -- Attempting to write my literary -- memoirs -- Not a mistake after all?
" These narratives/essays are mementos of an ordinary life-tales of love and loss, reflections on coming of age and confronting the decline, on joys hard won and deep abiding sorrows, fragments of dreams forgotten, forsaken, retrieved, honored... The title is a curtsey to the poet Emily Dickinson's feathery creature, her singing metaphor for hope. For, to me, both reading and writing are acts of hope. One reads in the hope of finding answers to life's troubling questions, or perhaps finding better questions. And one writes, guided by the same hope.
The inevitable question is: of what use are such memories as these, given the ominous signs that confront us today, signs that can only be interpreted as the coming of even more perilous times? To which my only response is that reading and writing are also acts of faith. Faith in the power of the word to recall, illuminate, and endure, to hold fast particularly during dark days-like those we find ourselves living through." -- From the Preface.
9789715068215
PHILIPPINE ESSAYS (ENGLISH)
PL 5539 .H53 2017
The thing with feathers : my book of memories / Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo - Manila : University Santo Tomas Publishing House, c2017. - xvi, 333 pages ; 23 cm.
I. Early apprenticeship or everything I needed to know about journalism…Once upon a time, under the pine trees in the old campus – Ghost of Christmas past -- "Usahay” -- Remembering Norma -- Casa Blanca -- Fugitive comfort -- Elegy to my lost home -- Some books are forever -- On books and bookstores -- Literary curiosities -- Para akong namatayan -- II Peacocks and roses in Perth -- Bangkok November -- Hong Kong: Ladder streets, a cabbage patch doll, a long girls' sleepover, and looking for "Araby" but finding a tiangge -- An Adventure (of Sorts) in Guangzhou -- III The writinig life, then and now -- "Literary influences" and the like -- Retracing my sojourns -- Edging toward biography via the profile -- Attempting to write my literary -- memoirs -- Not a mistake after all?
" These narratives/essays are mementos of an ordinary life-tales of love and loss, reflections on coming of age and confronting the decline, on joys hard won and deep abiding sorrows, fragments of dreams forgotten, forsaken, retrieved, honored... The title is a curtsey to the poet Emily Dickinson's feathery creature, her singing metaphor for hope. For, to me, both reading and writing are acts of hope. One reads in the hope of finding answers to life's troubling questions, or perhaps finding better questions. And one writes, guided by the same hope.
The inevitable question is: of what use are such memories as these, given the ominous signs that confront us today, signs that can only be interpreted as the coming of even more perilous times? To which my only response is that reading and writing are also acts of faith. Faith in the power of the word to recall, illuminate, and endure, to hold fast particularly during dark days-like those we find ourselves living through." -- From the Preface.
9789715068215
PHILIPPINE ESSAYS (ENGLISH)
PL 5539 .H53 2017
