Filipinos are mourning the passing of writer, book publisher, and Inquirer columnist Gilda Cordero-Fernando, who died on Aug. 27 at...
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.
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.
