AWARD-WINNING poet and essayist Rogelio G. Mangahas, whose poems in the 1960s and 1970s made him a major force in Filipino modernist poetry and influenced generations of writers, passed away on Wednesday. He was 79.

Mangahas died at 6:14 a.m. in the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Hospital in Manila, where he had been confined after suffering a massive stroke on Monday, according to his widow, historian and professor Fe Mangahas, and poet Vim Nadera.

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