The New in a Few, Pour Toi
Posted 12:32 PM by AD in Labels: essay, footnote, gratitude, kritika kulturaAs a footnote to this and an epilogue to this and this, just a short acknowledgement for/about the KK antho. This is me speaking for co-editors Mark Cayanan and Chingbee Cruz, both of whom will be leaving Manila soon to study in the States (Mark for an MFA in the University of Wisconsin, Chingbee for a PhD in SUNY Albany [hi kina Davis at Joris!]) - I think they wouldn't mind me being their modest mouthpiece for this.
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Over everything that happened behind the scenes in our co-editing the antho, what comes up on top is how the book ultimately closely mirrors what we were looking for in our initial call for submissions and how the initial call for submissions closely mirrors Kritika Kultura's editorial policy, from what the journal describes as "issues relevant to the 21st century" to its desire to "promote innovative scholarship that challenges traditional canons and established perspectives," to it not being exclusively for Ateneo writers only. As if it was all deftly orchestrated from the beginning[1].
We are very very grateful to Dr Ma Luisa Reyes for allowing us safe harbour despite us not being strictly Atenistas (nagturo naman aunt ko diyan for years, e!), for even providing such a critical (ISI- and MLA-approved! The intro was read and critiqued and approved by two academic readers!) and now creative venue in the first place; and Ms Ivery de Pano for the patience despite the pressure of three deadlines (two for the journal, one for her wedding). It was quite the privilege and quite the experience[2]. Sana maulit muli ... !!!
We are very very grateful to Dr Ma Luisa Reyes for allowing us safe harbour despite us not being strictly Atenistas (nagturo naman aunt ko diyan for years, e!), for even providing such a critical (ISI- and MLA-approved! The intro was read and critiqued and approved by two academic readers!) and now creative venue in the first place; and Ms Ivery de Pano for the patience despite the pressure of three deadlines (two for the journal, one for her wedding). It was quite the privilege and quite the experience[2]. Sana maulit muli ... !!!
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[1] It wasn't.
[2] Say what you will about a thousand pages of manuscripts imposing themselves on you, there's just nothing like the enjoyment of reading those thousand pages and talking about them at length and seeing how they complement each other and your own understanding of what's what, and then whittling those thousand pages down to six hundred and then whittling down that six hundred into a little more than three hundred, and then having that three hundred complement and be complemented by your own understanding of what's what, and working on articulating that understanding so that even more people could understand what you mean when you say what's what, and having that understanding be understood and appreciated by at the very least a few more people other than yourself - it was quite the six-month high[aa].
[2] Say what you will about a thousand pages of manuscripts imposing themselves on you, there's just nothing like the enjoyment of reading those thousand pages and talking about them at length and seeing how they complement each other and your own understanding of what's what, and then whittling those thousand pages down to six hundred and then whittling down that six hundred into a little more than three hundred, and then having that three hundred complement and be complemented by your own understanding of what's what, and working on articulating that understanding so that even more people could understand what you mean when you say what's what, and having that understanding be understood and appreciated by at the very least a few more people other than yourself - it was quite the six-month high[aa].
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[aa] Sana maulit muli ... !!!
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