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Angela Manalang-Gloria

Angela Manalang-Gloria

Angela Manalang-Gloria

Born: 'August 24, 1907' • Died: 'August 19, 1995'

Angela Manalang-Gloria, born Angela Marie Legaspi Manalang on August 24, 1907, in Guagua, Pampanga, the Republic of the Philippines, was one of the major Filipina poets of the early twentieth century. The author of Poems (Self-published, 1940), she was well-known by her peers, especially for her controversial poem “Revolt of the Hymen” which protested marital rape. She died on August 19, 1995. (Source)

Poems by Angela Manalang-Gloria

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Old Maid Walking on a City Street by Angela Manalang-Gloria

December 30, 2005
"Because her mind refused the heavy burden, / Her broad feet shovelled up the world." — Angela Manalang-Gloria
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Ermita in the Rain by Angela Manalang-Gloria

December 30, 2005
"But the phantom of your voice that / Stays me dreaming at my door." — Angela Manalang-Gloria
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Any Woman Speaks by Angela Manalang-Gloria

December 30, 2005
"But by these eyes that called you, / Blind fool who passed me by!" — Angela Manalang-Gloria
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To A Lovely Woman by Angela Manalang-Gloria

December 22, 2005
"And I, who know you are the undefined / Reality of all unreal things," — Angela Manalang-Gloria
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Words by Angela Manalang-Gloria

November 27, 2005
"Unfathomed depths withhold the wonder / Of all the words I never say." — Angela Manalang-Gloria
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To Don Juan by Angela Manalang-Gloria

October 16, 2005
“Yet when you looked at me, your looking / Opened a kingdom to my eyes,” — Angela Manalang-Gloria
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I Have Begrudged the Years by Angela Manalang-Gloria

October 15, 2005
“Therefore behold me now, a Timon bent / On hoarding each coin of love that should be spent / On you and you,” — Angela Manalang-Gloria
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Cementerio del Norte by Angela Manalang-Gloria

October 14, 2005
“White tombs so desolately splendid, bone unto alien bone,” — Angela Manalang-Gloria
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Querida by Angela Manalang-Gloria

October 13, 2005
“The door is closed, the curtains drawn within / One room, a brilliant question mark of light...” — Angela Manalang-Gloria
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To the Man I Married by Angela Manalang-Gloria

September 1, 2005
"You who are earth, O never doubt that I / Need you no less because I need the sky!" – Angela Manalang-Gloria
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Revolt From Hymen by Angela Manalang-Gloria

August 31, 2005
"To turn the face this way and that and feel / No kisses festering on it like sores," – Angela Manalang-Gloria
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Soledad by Angela Manalang-Gloria

August 30, 2005
"Her soul's cathedral burned by his desires" – Angela Manalang-Gloria