Morning poem

Likhaan: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature, 2010

The editor's lament: We watched as he carefully unwrapped his little bundle from a scarlet kerchief, and spread it out on the dirt floor before our altar. It was given with a good heart, we could see. But we sighed. That sigh of a god who is sick to death of gifts of chicken feathers, and milk, and honey. Should we tell him? Damn it all man, we want GOLD ......

2006

SETU, 2019

2018

Translated from Japanese by Joshua Solomon: Thorny Roses Sand Pear Petals Rice Fish Early Spring Author acknowledges Ito Yumiko of Tsugaru Shobo for securing translation and publication rights

2015

InterSedes, 2021

The Decadent Review, 2023

Thesis: Poetry must prove its utility; Thesis: Poetry is a disappointment; Thesis: Poetry is fine, but try to write better poems. The ars poetica, the apology or defense of poetry, and the poetry manifesto are all united by a single goal: to save poetry. But… save it from what? Across nearly two millennia, Horace, Sir Philip Sidney, and Ben Lerner each wrote their own ars poetica: Ars Poetica, The Defense of Poesy, and The Hatred of Poetry. Each corresponding to one of the dialectics above.

Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de la Escritura (RLEE), 2024

This paper analyzes the production of the critical review genre, one of the literacy practices experienced by students in Unicamp's Higher Interdisciplinary Training Program (ProFIS), and its relationship with the development of writing at university. Our aim is to investigate aspects of the critical review produced by these students, especially the mobilization of knowledge related to the genre and the inscription of enunciative marks of appreciation in this text, through modalizers. Our corpus is made up of examples of critical reviews produced by these students, and was analyzed in the light of textual-discursive principles. The analysis made it possible to raise hypotheses about the transition between the literacy practices experienced by the students in the Program before entering university and those expected in academic life, which led us to reflect on possible didactic propositions for qualifying the academic literacy of our students and their university performance (present and future) in higher education.

Pharaoh’s Daughter in Literary-Historical Context, Biblische Notizen 194 (2022), 31-44., 2022

The article examines the potential of episodes related in the biblical history of Solomon to serve as sources for the history of Jeroboam II, King of Israel. It first suggests that the "Acts of Solomon", the source available to the author of Solomon's history, was written in Judah in the late eighth century BCE, after the fall of the Northern Kingdom. It then examines five episodes that depict Solomon's operations: (a) his district list (1 Kgs 4:7-19); (b) the list of six cities that he built (9:15b, 17b-18); (c) the sails he initiated from the Gulf of Eilat to Ophir (9:26-28; 10:11-12, 16-22); (d) his presentation as mediator in the international trade of horses and chariots (1 Kgs 10:28-29); and (e) the concept of the United Monarchy as reflection of Jeroboam II's kingdom. The article concludes that of these episodes, only the account of Solomon's sails to Ophir rests on the reality of Jeroboam's time and memorialized his cooperation with the King of Tyre in the maritime sail to Ophir and the extraction of gold from this remote country.