Remember, Biblio, which, if I am correct, was started by the then librarian Dominic (forgot his surname). I knew Dominic even before I joined the college, and he often gave me books on his name. I met Dominic at his house in Siolim some years ago. I was staying in the village and visited Alexyz, who told me that Dominic was in Goa. I paid him a visit and we talked for some time. Thanks Linken for making me remember old times. Will remember Eunice as a dainty doll before she became a rather vociferous, hard-hitting and biting poet.
Eugene On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Linken Fernandes <linkenfernan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Quite a bit has been written in social media about Eunice de Souza’s poetry > and persona over the past few days and not enough, may I suggest, about her > style of teaching. I was in her class in my final year, and what a contrast > it was, for me, from the preceding three years of college! In just a few > months I had been to film screenings at the Alliance Francaise and the > Russian consulate, poetry readings within the college and at the University > campus, had chatted with a Canadian writer, I forget his name, in the > college canteen, missed meet-ups with other writers, as also other cultural > excursions (my loss!), and contributed to both the college magazine as well > as Biblio (a cyclostyled annual magazine brought out by the college > library). There was also the additional material (poems, stories etc) > especially cyclostyled and distributed to students to amplify, or throw a > cross-light, on content in the syllabus. All this while being regaled in > class by very accessible ruminations on poems, novels and plays, delivered > in an easy, conversational voice that would have hooked any listener to the > charm of stories printed in books. (Credit also, of course, to the > management of the college, which appeared to prefer as faculty people who > were practitioners in the disciplines they discoursed on; the English > department also fielded the writer Nisha da Cunha (HoD) and the poet Saleem > Peeradina (no mean, and innovative, a lecturer himself!) when I was there. > It was perhaps this all-embracing, immersive approach to teaching, the > enabling of an appropriate cultural surround, that made the greatest > impression on Eunice’s students and kept them in thrall, and obliged to > her, for many, many years after. >