Commend contend - Tiempo, Edith L. 1919-; Tiempo, Edith L. 1919- (Diliman, Quezon City University of the Philippines Press, 2010)
Part I. On language and art -- To scrimage within bounds -- No open-and-shut case -- Communicating -- Commend contend -- Counter cycle -- Creator's dilemma -- Misusing talent -- Change-or borrow -- The writer's parenthesis -- Insighting insight -- Some putative pantuns -- Part II. On time and space -- Dry spell -- Shadow as matter -- Items accounted for -- Rubber band: a true story -- Discovery -- On keeping time -- Stunting, stinting -- Foliage-or flower -- Voice and echo -- Still life. -- Part I. 1. Tom-lin smiles -- The mirror -- Reaching out -- Becoming -- Between-living -- From an aged patient's chair -- Wandered far -- Plants and people -- Wraps -- Prayer by a waterfall in Pagatban -- II. Beyond, extensions -- Plural love -- Pits in the tableland -- The glow-worm -- Posibilities -- Kindling -- Cherry-heart -- Out of the woods -- Outstripping self -- Irony, and habits of heart and mind -- Quenching -- The room -- Crossroad in the hunt: an allegory.
Two works bound together back-to-back. Title and author of 2nd work: Beyond extensions by Edith L. Tiempo.
Keywords: Philippine poetry (English)