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Sunset View from a
House in Jasaan
-Anthony L. Tan-
Anthony Tan was born on 26th August 1947, Siasi [Muddas], Sulu. His degrees AB English, 1968, MA Creative Writing, 1975, and Ph.D. English Lit., 1982 were all obtained from the Silliman University where he edited Sands and Coral, 1976. For more than a decade, he was a member of the English faculty at SU and regular member of the panel of critics in the Silliman Writers Workshop.
He taught briefly at the DLSU and was
Chair of the English Dept. at MSU-Iligan
Institute of Technology where he continues
to teach. A member of the Iligan Arts
Council, he helps Jaime An Lim and
Christine Godinez-Ortega run the Iligan
Writers Workshop/Literature Teachers
Conference. He also writes fiction and
children's stories.
He has won a number of awards, among
them, the Focus Award for poetry, the
Palanca 1st prize for Poems for Muddas in
1993; also the Palanca for essay. Among
his works are The Badjao Cemetery and
Other Poems, 1985 and Poems
for Muddas, Anvil, 1996.
Sunset View from
a House in Jasaan
-Anthony L. Tan-
His poem is a product of his powerful
mind. As a traveller, he showed his
appreciation of the place-Jasaan through
his poem.
The place reminds him of the melancholy
in life he has been.
Have a good day !