Writer, artist Gilda Cordero-Fernando; 90
Filipinos are mourning the passing of writer, book publisher, and Inquirer columnist Gilda Cordero-Fernando, who died on Aug. 27 at the age of 90 after a lingering illness. Chef Mol
Filipinos are mourning the passing of writer, book publisher, and Inquirer columnist Gilda Cordero-Fernando, who died on Aug. 27 at the age of 90 after a lingering illness. Chef Mol
The world is growing smaller now, my heart could just go bang. Many years ago, one random day, I walk into a bookstore and across the table from me are the band members of China Crisis. And Curt Smith and Rob Thomas answer Tweets.
Times New Roman was dark chocolate and anxiety. Book Antiqua was pineapple juice and boredom. Impact and Avant-Garde—there was no distinction between these for him—were the aftertaste of vomit and a whiff of panic, but quickly settles to a nothingness he found bearable, thank God.
Prose and poetry are such different disciplines. Poetry likes to linger, to savor, to sit by the wayside spinning metaphors. Prose likes words, too, but never as the essence itself. Prose is more interested in telling the story, in bringing the tale to its conclusion. A dusting of metaphors is good enough, too many will distract.
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