[New-Poetry] Little known 20th C Poet:s: José Garcia Villa

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REVIEW
José Garcia Villa’s poetry now part of Penguin Classics 


By Ruel S. De Vera
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:23:00 07/28/2008


MANILA, Philippines - Playing with shadow and spark, the book’s cover exemplifies the multifarious nature of its author, the poet José Garcia Villa.


Tipped one way, the cover shows a young Villa’s profile, and tipped another, the words dove, eagle and lion emerge.

Doveglion, an amalgamation of the three words, was Villa’s pen name, and is emblematic of the iconoclastic and meaningful writing life possessed by Villa, born in 1908, died in 1997, and named a National Artist for Literature.

That unmatched resonance is captured and celebrated in “Doveglion: Collected Poems” (Penguin Classics, New York, 2008, 260 pages), edited by John Edwin Cowen with an introduction by Luis H. Francia.


To be included in the august Penguin Classics line is honor enough, but the book comes on the occasion of the centennial of Villa’s birth. It is the perfect time then for an entirely new generation of Filipino readers to discover one of our literature’s most original and powerful voices.

Easily recognized are Villa’s comma poems,

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