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Doveglion : collected poems / Jose Garcia Villa ; introduction by Luis H. Francia ; edited by John Edwin Cowen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, 2008Description: xl, 260 p. 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780143105350
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS 9993 .V5 .D751 2008 D68 2008
Summary: 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 Doveglion(Villas pen namefor dove, eagle, and lion) contains Villas collected poetry, including rare and previously unpublished material.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Filipiniana Filipiniana Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Filipiniana PS 9993 .V5 .D751 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3AEA0000304596

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 Doveglion(Villas pen namefor dove, eagle, and lion) contains Villas collected poetry, including rare and previously unpublished material.

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