Category Archives: Writing

A.K. Ramanujan: A Country You Can’t Reach

Posted on May 19, 2020 by Richard Guzman

Born in Mysore, India, Attippat Krishnaswami Ramanujan (1929-1994) is considered by many to be India’s finest modern poet writing in English, though he went far beyond English, his other writings as poet, scholar, playwright, philologist, folklorist, and translator ranging over … Continue reading →

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Neil Tesser: Out of Season

Posted on May 9, 2020 by Richard Guzman

With everything on hold this year, including baseball, I’m re-reading Neil Tesser’s piece “Out of Season” with greater than average nostalgia.  David Starkey and I put this piece in our 1999 book Smokestacks and Skyscrapers: An Anthology of Chicago Writing.  … Continue reading →

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Writing About the Philippines

Posted on January 10, 2020 by Richard Guzman

This post serves partly as an index to the writing I’ve done on this site about my homeland, The Philippines.  My relation to this homeland has been problematic my whole life, and, in fact, the list of writings below is … Continue reading →

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