Angela Caridad Legaspi Manalang-Gloria was born in Guagua, Pampanga on August 7, 1907. During her education in University of the Philippines, her life-long rivalry with the poet Jose Garcia Villa was developed. She also became the literary editor in Philippine Collegian, with Celedonio P. Gloria as the editor-in-chief. Their friendship led to marriage and they had 3 children. On March 11, 1945 Japanese patrol attacked her husband and her son Ruben in Alitagtag, Batangas. Though Celedonio died, Ruben
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argued in my stomach and I felt, in my pocket, for my ticket. A poem should always have birds in it. Kingfishers, say, with their bold eyes and gaudy wings. Rivers are pleasant, and of course trees. A waterfall, or if that’s not possible, a fountain rising and falling. A person wants to stand in a happy place, in a poem. When the woman turned I could not answer her face. Her beauty and her embarrassment struggled together, and neither could win. She smiled and I smiled. What kind of nonsense
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Literary Piece #1 To the Man I Married Angela Manalang Gloria I You are my earth and all that earth implies: The gravity that ballasts me in space, The air I breathe, the land that stills my cries For food and shelter against devouring days. You are the earth whose orbit marks my way And sets my north and south, my east and west, Your are the final, elemental clay The driven heart must turn to for its rest. If in your arms that hold me now so near I lift my keening thoughts to another one, As
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PHILIPPINE LITERATURE Philippine literature is the body of works, both oral and written, that Filipinos, whether native, naturalized, or foreign born, have created about the experience of people living in or relating to Philippine society. It is composed or written in any of the Philippine languages, in Spanish and in English, and in Chinese as well. Philippine literature may be produced in the capital city of Manila and in the different urban centers and rural outposts, even in foreign lands where
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