Discernments by Ralph Semino GalanRalph Semino Galan, poet and academic, is an exuberant and refreshing voice as he enters the literary and cultural criticism scene in his first collection of literary essays, cultural critiques, and book reviews. Skillful and deliberate in his play of words and images, Galan deploys, according to literary critic Oscar Campomanes, sly techniques of sublating the creative critical and the theoretical.