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Dominador Ilio
Dominador Ilio (c. )
Born	()November 15, Malinao, Aklan, Philippine Islands
Died	February 7, () (aged&#;92) Aklan, Philippines
Pen name	Isaias Topacio Domingo, Basilio, Crisostomo de la Cruz, and J.D. Ibarra
Occupation	Poet, Professor, Engineer
Language	English
Literary movement	Modernism
Notable works	The Diplomat, The Vigil of Freedom and Icarus in Catechism Class
Notable awards	Most Distinguished Alumnus, University of the Philippines, UP Golden Jubilee Literary Contest, Republic Anniversary Poetry Contest.
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Dominador “Dom” Ibarra Ilio (November 15, - February 7, ) was a poet and professor born in Malinao, Capiz (now part of Aklan).

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He is considered a pioneer of Philippine literature in English as a recognized poet and author both in the Philippines and in the United States. He was an engineer by profession.^[1]

Biography

Early life

Ilio was born in Malinao, Aklan, the Philippines in November to Hilarion Ilio.

He received his bachelor's degrees in both Civil Engineering and Geodetic Engineering at the University of the Philippines Diliman, where he joined the Beta Epsilon Fraternity in He later obtained his master's degree in hydraulics in the State University of Iowa.^[1]

Writing career

According to Hector Santos, Ilio is a very important and pioneering Filipino poet.

Along with Edith Tiempo and Ricaredo Demetillo, Ilio studied under Paul Engle in the famous Iowa writing workshop in the early s.^[1] Their poems were included in a special issue of Poetry: A magazine of verse in ^[2][3]

Works

Dominador Ilio's poems have been compiled in The Diplomat and Other Poems () and Collected Poems of Dominador I.

Ilio (). Aside from verse, he wrote books of fiction and non-fiction, namely: Guerilla Memoirs (a novel), Madia-as (tales and legends in verse), The Katipunan of Aklan, and Vagaries of a Wild River.

Dominador ilio biography definition He is considered a pioneer of Philippine literature in English as a recognized poet and author both in the Philippines and in the United States. He was an engineer by profession. He later obtained his master's degree in hydraulics in the State University of Iowa. According to Hector Santos, Ilio is a very important and pioneering Filipino poet. Ilio

He is also included in Gémino Abad's and Edna Manlapaz's Man of Earth (Ateneo, ) and its sequel, A Native Clearing (UP Press, ) and in Nick Carbo's anthology Returning a Borrowed Tongue, a collection of Filipino poetry in English, published by Coffee House Press, While studying in the United States, Ilio attended Paul Engle's Poetry Workshop in Iowa and received citations.

He would later win the honorable mention for his novel State of War at the UP Golden Jubilee Literary Contest. He also won in the Republic Anniversary Poetry Contest. His poems "The Diplomat" and "Icarus in Catechism Class" are often anthologized and included in textbooks of literature.^[1]

List of Works

• The Diplomat and other Poems.

  Dominador ilio biography definition history

  Hambae Inakeanon in its original form Poetry in Aklan is old, and the 16th century poem "Hambae Inakeanon" was one of the earliest documented proof. As a poet, he wrote several books, which may have been coming from the practice of poetry in the traditions of Aklan. The author of the article entitled "Luwa in Aklan," Melchor Cichon, recounts that at the funeral of his grandmother, people honored her with Luwa in her wake. His grandmother before, recites Luwa on the wakes of friends or relatives who passed away. Read more of how Luwa is being done.

  Quezon City, Diliman: The Guinhalinan Press,

• Guerilla Memoirs. The University of Michigan,
• Madia-as Tales and Legends, (self-published),
• Collected Poems of Dominador Ilio (), the University of Michigan (original),

Anthologies

• Casper, Leonard. Six Filipino Poets w/ notes by N.V.M.

  Gonzalez, Manila: Benipayo Press, ^[4]

• Botteghe Obscure Literary Journal, Autumn Issue,
• Carbo, Nick.
  Dominador ilio biography definition and example His family and his friends remember him as a quiet and simple man who loved writing , painting, and playing bridge. He was a true Renaissance man: and engineer; poet, painter, and educator. Born November 5, in Malinao, Aklan, he grew up with fourteen brothers and sisters. His father dealt in rice and livestock trading and bought parcels of land, while his mother worked as a public school teacher. It is a struggle for his parents to send him and his siblings to school, but Ilio graduated valedictorian from Capiz High School and later earned his degrees in Associate in Surveying in and geodetic Engineering and Civil Engineering in

  Returning a Borrowed Tongue: An Anthology of Filipino and Filipino American Poetry, Coffee House Press,

Legacy

Until his retirement in , he was a professor of hydraulics at the University of the Philippines College of Engineering, where he also served as head of the Engineering Science Department; and College Secretary.

Aside from this, he became the Secretary of the UP Alumni Engineers in and was selected as the Most Distinguished Engineering Alumnus in The Prof. Dominador I. Ilio Award is an award named in his honor in order to recognize the graduating student who showed excellence not only in academics, but also service, leadership, and extracurricular activities.^[5]

Personal life and death

Dominador Ilio married Clotilde Yerro with whom he sired three sons: Dominador Jr., an activist during the time of Martial Law in the Philippines; Dennis, a computer engineer based in New York City; and Kenneth, a scientist turned photographer (and also a writer who has been included in short story anthologies in the US and the Philippines) based in Chicago.

In , Prof. Dominador Ilio was arrested at his UP campus home because state agents could not find his son, Dominador, Jr. He was only released from Camp Crame a month later, once his son had been captured.^[6]

Aside from teaching and writing, Dominador, Sr. was known among friends to be an expert bridge player. He died on February 7, , at age

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