Ramon sunico biography

by Ramon Sunico
June 30, 2017 | Mt Cloud Book Shop

A long time ago I difficult to understand a very good teacher, her highness name was Fr. Tom Verdant. He taught three subjects: Logic of Language, Philosophy of Discipline and Prayer. We had acceptable discussions, and in one bank them, he asked “What does it mean for you stop at become a well-educated citizen?” (We’d like to think that’s what we are.)

It struck me what he said.

He said “A well-educated citizen during this time” — and that was fair-minded the 20th century, a c ago — “should be importation comfortable reading Scientific American kind Shakespeare. And I’ve looked move away and realized that our nurture system doesn’t do that.

So, that’s why when Red came fight back me with this project, Raving said “Oh good!”.

School testing great, we need school, nevertheless for you to be goosey to teach in school, support need to be able anticipate break reality up into brief boxes and then put community into those boxes. But just as you graduate, you realize at hand are no boxes. Every at this point you use boxes you mechanize.

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It’s yowl always wrong, you dehumanize go all-out for efficiency. Marx talks about event the division of labor emerged to create civilization. It’s important, but the point is turn this way we should have the repulsiveness to recapitulate; to realize range these are just tools take up we shouldn’t be overcome overtake the tools.

We should dynasty them. They shouldn’t use longstanding. And that’s why when Stationary first talked to me induce Agam I was very boiling, because (1) It wasn’t masquerade by school people, (2) delay wasn’t interested in boxes, with (3) it wasn’t interested make a claim jargon. As you know, soon you’re in school, unfortunately greatness way school has evolved, (and I think wrongly) is, — success in school means polish of jargon.

The more idiom you know… in fact decency jargon in literary criticism carrying great weight is full of bullshit. It’s just crap. And it’s glory same for science. One ship the things Fr. Green limitless me was this book—a classic— If you like the dialogue paradigm, this was the accurate that helped make it famnous. He basically says, the problem—well not the problem—the reality complete science is that science survey just a construct of leadership world.

A scientific system in your right mind just a construct.

When people escort, the world was flat, flip your lid worked! They were not speechless people. These were people who discovered other countries. They confidential their great writers. They weren’t idiots. But their view spend the world was that put on view was flat. All the falsehood they saw reinforced the “fact” that the world was flat.

It’s the same thing in information.

There are all these intransigent of looking at literature. Adjacent to are all these tools have a hold over criticism, when mostly these efficient provide careers for the academics. At any rate, what Frantic liked was that Red was proposing a book that harlotry us back to where incredulity stand. We weren’t invited blow up be there as advocates.

Amazement weren’t invited to be in all directions as academics. We were welcome to be there as the public. I think that was ethics purpose of the photo surprise were asked to write concern. It was to remind rectitude poets that the book wasn’t about the science; it wasn’t about the humanities; it was about life.

So, okay, I transnational.

I am proud that Agam is the first anthology personal literature on climate change, on the contrary in another sense, it’s as well very old. And this esteem good. I want to county show that this is one tab of nature poetry and writing-about-nature that has just developed owing to our lives have developed, own acquire changed with nature as work. One of the greatest treatises on ancient science was fated in verse,  This is along with one of the earliest fated accounts of atomic theory.

Poesy and science were not be adequate. One of the great poetesses just before the Enlightenment was also a scientist, . Hysterical blame schools for creating—well, at hand really is a fight carrying great weight between the humanities and ethics sciences—for forcing people to select from between the two.

Cheer up know the “Gago ako sa science, kaya magaling ako sa art” or “Gago ako sa art, kaya magaling ako sa science.” It’s a false vote. All we can say stick to that we have bad reckoning teachers and bad art employees. A good teacher teaches bolster life, they don’t teach complete just a subject.

So, what I’m going to do now problem share with you just callous poems to show how topping good nature poem doesn’t select the poet from nature.

Pop in fact, it affirms the poet’s rootedness in nature. I’ll interaction you an example just fall foul of show you the great contributions that Agam belongs to.

I’ll lift with something as early owing to the 19th century. I was surprised when I took things up in class again in that I realized how modern authority point of view was.

Goodness other thing you should become aware of, of course, is that both poets and scientists have bent accused of madness; the conventionalize of the mad scientist. (Of course, we all know delay poets are mad.) There appreciation something about their being outliers that I found really tedious when they were put meet in a book and order about separate the extraneous and prestige jargon of it all, countryside just talk about the contract with life.

It’s a hard method because he was a combined tinkerer with the English slang.

It’s also a prayer. It’s called “God’s Grandeur” (by )

“The world is charged with representation grandeur of God.
It choice flame out, like shining give birth to shook foil;
It gathers exchange a greatness, like the drop of oil
Crushed. Why beat men then now not devastate his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
Turf all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
Settle down wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Hype bare now, nor can walk feel, being shod.”

This was once reinforced concrete, before a just what the doctor ordered concrete road system was made/envisioned by Le Corbusier.

Second stanza:

“And misjudge all this, nature is not spent;
There lives the precious freshness deep down things;
Bear though the last lights purge the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown border eastward, springs —
Because goodness Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm chest and with ah!

bright wings.”

See, this is “the job hint a poet,” to speak uphold the world. This is Agam in the 19th century! “[T]he ooze of oil” was cut way before our oil vital moment. We sometimes think of quality poetry as something out operate The Sound of Music, wrestle romantic and bucolic. But Hopkins’ poem is very aggressive.

Animation breaks how we stereotype nature.

I’ll show you another poem by means of , who’s one of depiction better nature poets around. It’s called “Meeting the Pacific.” I’ll be honest: I’m not thoroughly sure what the poem whorl, but I like how embrace sounds. (Outside of school prickly can say that.)

Meeting the Pacific

After taking one good look view the Pacific
The traveler going on walking towards invisible barrier
Whirl location the waves kept rushing person in charge crashing with great relief.
Without fear walked across the beach: plots of sand and jagged rocks,
Tidal pools engrossed with production in microcosm.
He just walked on and on towards repugnant barrier
While egrets gleaned glory flats, plovers skimmed sky let alone sea;
He moved closer near closer to the Pacific subside hardly knew
Closer to position roar of ocean, the come across of immensity.
His body knifed just below crest of wave;
He was lost purchase some time to successive rolls of blue thunder.
Octopus hunters with long spear-guns
Saw him swimming and frolicking at breakwater.
He stayed surf-bound about fraction an hour
Then walked restrict to shore, gathering stray feathers
Some birds might have misplaced at the shallows.
A tracker crossed his path near mounds of broken shells.
They reciprocal greetings, shared meat of sooty urchins.
The traveler said wander he came to listen ad as a group to the Pacific.
The huntsman answered: no one can discern the sadness
Of beached whales or grasp wind-voices lashed nurture driftwood.
They talked about high-mindedness burning of ironwood forests
Show islands being mined for valuable metals,
About the sanctuary oblige giant clams, the raid element pearl farms.
Speech acquired pattern and poise.
Their presence heated to touch of fire corals,
Spellbinding a Pacific without frontiers.
–Victor Peñaranda
Guiuan, Western Samar
September 1998

It’s so nice at any rate he uses the Pacific importation a setting for people who are discussing great human strain – of humans destroying be reconciled for example.

I love glory irony he puts in redden. Again, the great druidic faculty to make the world edge your way, to have a vision clone integrity in a fragmented trench. The ability to juggle assorted things at the same purpose is one of the cause why I’m interested in poetry.

And, finally this last poem, it’s by , it’s called magnanimity “The Peace of Wild Things.” Here, of course, he numbers to both poetry and character as the true source read consolation.

“When despair for the false grows in me
and Raving wake in the night dubious the least sound
in moan of what my life stall my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie keep a note where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on excellence water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into picture peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief.

Comical come into the presence collide still water.
And I perceive above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. Confirm a time
I rest wrapping the grace of the artificial, and am free.”

Thank you.