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Allyssa Mae M.

Mempin SOC-SCI 1

Edith L. Tiempo
Born in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines (April 22, 1919)
Died August 21, 2011 (92 years old)
Genre (Poetry, Literature & Fiction)
Cause of death: Heart Attack
Edith L. Tiempo is a poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary critic is one of the finest Filipino
Writers in English whose works are characterized by a remarkable fusion of style and substance,
of craftsmanship and insight.
 She received several awards during her lifetime period
 Mother of Philippine Literature
 Edith Tiempo received the greatest honor as a National Artist for Literature in 1999
*WORKS
Novels
 A blade of Ferns 1978
 His Native Coast 1979
 The Alien Corn 1992

Two of her anthologized pieces:


1. in the poem “Lament for the Littlest Fellow” by Filipina Poet Edith Tiempo,
Marmoset; a bushy haired little monkey.
The man holds the bars of the cage, which is why the one inside the cage would think that the
one who holds the bars of the cage is the one inside the cage. Notice that man is being compared
to a marmoset. We can say that they are binary oppositions and that commonly, the animal
(compared to a human) is the less privileged side. Here, it is the marmoset.
2. Published on JUNE 9, 2013
The poem entitled “Bonsai” written by Edith Tiempo talks about love in terms of a plant
“Bonsai”. Bonsai is a perennial woody plant that has the features of a tree. In the poem, it
describes how a Bonsai could be related to love. Many say that love is a huge monumental
feeling that is found in every little aspects of life. This award-winning poet describes how love
could be scaled down into a “cupped hand size”.
- This shows how the author thinks that love is something that is foldable or flexible
depending on the situation. The author expressed how love could be reduced to a cupped
hand’s size. This irony shows that we all have control to what our hearts could give.

 Her husband Edilberto K. Tiempo is a fictionist and novelist


 She founded the Silliman University National Writers Workshop
 It is the Asia’s longest running writers workshop held in the City of Dumaguete
 A writers workshop is devoted to helping emerging writers cultivate their craft

Anthology- a published collection of poems or other pieces of writing.


Marmoset- a bushy haired little monkey
Perennial- lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time

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