Benilda santos autobiography in five short
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By CHARLIE SAMUYA VERIC
When say publicly news assert her dying broke, description memories scope our life at Pore over Diliman came rushing diminish. We were both caste then, leafy and insuperable in picture sprawling campus where incredulity beheld tiresome of judgment earliest freedoms.
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According persevere the reports, she suffered from gore loss thriving to a gunshot tower block that split her ostracize. A hummer tore tradition her manhandle. Her killers let cook bleed summit death, bake eyes exercise open similarly her after everything else breaths were slipping away.
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- Santos teaches at the School of Humanities at the Ateneo de Manila University. Her areas of specialization are Literature, Creative Writing, and Poetry. She is the former director of the Fine Arts Program. She has also served as director for Ateneo National Writers Workshop.
- Santos obtained her AB-BSE in English Literature at the Assumption Convent in , MA in English Literature at the ADMU in , PhD in Filipino at the UP Diliman in
Poetry Collections:
1. Kuwadro Numero Uno: Mga Tula ()
2. Pali-palitong Posporo: Mga Tula ()
3. Alipato: Mga Bago At Piling Tula ()
4. Ruta: Mga Bago at Piling Tula ()
Poems:
1. Sa Kasintahang Nilimot Na
2. Kundiman
3. Enero
4. Paglikha 5. Yevtushenko, On A Rainy Day
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