tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100776413149670920.post3519784053615115077..comments2024-03-29T06:03:26.512-07:00Comments on IEPI: Filipino American Literature this evening at Saint Mary's CollegeTon van 't Hofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09887032597668813687noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100776413149670920.post-2335943436088493222007-10-06T17:19:00.000-07:002007-10-06T17:19:00.000-07:00hey (david?) yes you're right, i think a lot of lo...hey (david?) yes you're right, i think a lot of local a-g folks have not heard of him, precisely because of his activist/manilatown affiliations. i don't know that being considered an 'ethnic' poet bothers him as much as his being considered an 'ethnic' poet bothers me. i always think of him as sf poet laureate material, you know?bjaneprhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07212077947146090915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6100776413149670920.post-8773257269202328112007-10-05T16:39:00.000-07:002007-10-05T16:39:00.000-07:00yes, al robles! i love it in the I-Hotel doc when ...yes, al robles! i love it in the I-Hotel doc when he mutters "Fucking Victorians"... I wonder to what degree Al's engagement with the local & the overtly political tends to get him read (by lazy & MFA-trained readers/poets) as an 'ethnic' or 'multi-culti' poet (vs "properly" avant-garde)... since most people in the a-g scene here don't seem to ever have heard of him!dbuuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01168078423144600856noreply@blogger.com