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exuberant in expression and passionate in its sympathy for the poor and the working class. His earlier works ranged from expansive free verse to sonnets, but his more recent work emphasizes formal convention. He founded the Children‘s Communication Center (publisher of Adarna Books), conducts the long-running poetry clinic, Linangan sa Imahen, Retorika, at Arte (Lira), has been executive director of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), and is currently dean of the college of liberal arts at UP. He was conferred the Order of National Artist for Literature in 2003. In ―Typhoons,‖ (2005) he tells of the ―perennial tempests‖ that visit the land, as he finds himself waking with full amazement to be greeted by clear daylight with each new morning
