Doveglion : collected poems /
Villa, Jose Garcia, 1912-1997.
Doveglion : collected poems / Jose Garcia Villa ; introduction by Luis H. Francia ; edited by John Edwin Cowen. - New York : Penguin Books, 2008 - xl, 260 p. 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxvii]-xl).
The centennial edition of major Filipino writer José Garcia Villas 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 Doveglion(Villas pen namefor dove, eagle, and lion) contains Villas collected poetry, including rare and previously unpublished material.
9780143105350
Philippine poetry (English).
PS 9993 .V5 .D751 2008 / D68 2008
Doveglion : collected poems / Jose Garcia Villa ; introduction by Luis H. Francia ; edited by John Edwin Cowen. - New York : Penguin Books, 2008 - xl, 260 p. 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxvii]-xl).
The centennial edition of major Filipino writer José Garcia Villas 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 Doveglion(Villas pen namefor dove, eagle, and lion) contains Villas collected poetry, including rare and previously unpublished material.
9780143105350
Philippine poetry (English).
PS 9993 .V5 .D751 2008 / D68 2008
