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Ricaredo demetillo poems Ricaredo Demetillo (June 10, – ) was a Filipino essayist, poet, and playwright. Demetillo was one of the most important and prolific literary figures in the Philippines during the Twentieth Century and has won numerous awards for his writing.
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Ricaredo Demetillo, the father of my mother, was a Filipino writer in English (poet, essayist, playwright, and critic), and professor of Humanities at the University of the Philippines in Diliman. My father, Pedro “Edru” Abraham, Jr., knew of Prof. Demetillo even before he met my mother because of his “outstanding academic reputation.”.Ricaredo Demetillo, the father of Ricaredo Demetillo is an essayist, poet, and playwright. Demetillo was born in Dumangas, Iloilo. In he completed his masters degree in fine arts in English and creative writing at the State University in Iowa. He was able to seriously pursue his talent the Iowa Creative Writing Center and at Indiana University as a Rockefeller scholar.
Historical documents, Professor Demetillo The poem is about a man who had a deep love for the earth. When he became ill and passed away, his friends wrapped his body and laid him to rest in the fields that he loved, covering him with green grass. They took comfort in the idea that his spirit may one day return from the crops growing in the earth where he was buried.