Doveglion: Collected Poems : Collected Poems
by Garcia Villa, Jose; Cowen, John Edwin; Francia, Luis H.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-07-29
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary
The centennial edition of major Filipino writer José Garcia Villa’s collected poetry Known as the Pope of Greenwich Village,” José Garcia Villa had a special status as the only Asian poet among a group of modern literary giants in 1940s New York that included W. H. Auden, Tennessee Williams, and a young Gore Vidal. But beyond his exotic ethnicity, Villa was a global poet who was admired for the reverence, the raptness, the depth of concentration in [his] bravely deep poems” (Marianne Moore). Doveglion(Villa’s pen name—for dove, eagle, and lion) contains Villa’s collected poetry, including rare and previously unpublished material.
Author Biography
Jos+¬ Garcia Villa (1908-û1997) immigrated to the United States from his native Philippines in 1930 and became active in New York-'s literary scene as a poet, editor, and lecturer. His first book of poems, Have Come, Am Here, was published by Viking in 1942 to great critical acclaim. John Edwin Cowen is the literary trustee for the Villa estate. He lives in New Jersey. Luis H. Francia is an award-winning poet and writer.
Table of Contents
| Have Come, Am Here | |
| Lyrics: I | |
| Lyrics: II | |
| Lyrics: III | |
| Lyrics: IV | |
| Divine Poems | |
| from Volume Two | |
| Divine Poems | |
| Aphorisms, I | |
| Caprices | |
| Aphorisms, II | |
| from Selected Poems and New | |
| New Poems and Adaptations | |
| Aphorisms, III | |
| Adaptations | |
| Early Poems | |
| Lyrics | |
| Philosophica | |
| from Appassionata: Poems in Praise of Love | |
| Duo-Technique and Xocerisms | |
| Duo-Technique Poems and Adaptations | |
| Xocerisms | |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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