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Jose Garcia Villa in 1953 | Born | August 5, 1908
Singalong, Manila, Philippines | Died | February 7, 1997
New York, USA | Pen name | Doveglion | Occupation | Poet, critic, lecturer | Language | English | Nationality | Filipino | Literary movement | Modernism, Surrealism | Notable work(s) | The Anchored Angel, The Emperor's New Sonnet, Footnote to Youth | Notable award(s) | Philippine National Artist, Academy Award for Literature, Guggenheim Fellowship, UP Golden Jubilee Literary Contests, Pro Patria Award, Heritage Award |
Citattion of the National Artist Award conferred on Jose Garcia Villa by the Philippine Government on June 12, 1973
Jose Garcia Villa is one of the finest contemporary poets regardless of race or language. When Have Come , Am Here, the first of his poems to be published in the West, broke upon the surprised consciousness of readers, it was immediately acclaimed for its beauty of language, intensity of thought and a fierce religious spirit absent in the poetry of his age.
Villa's theme are universal- the meaning of self, man's combat with God, the passion of love. He inhabits a timeless world, like the great poets of any language. and rise the ultimate questions about the meaning of life.
The center of Villa's universe is man, the puny inhabitant of a tiny planet, and the poet measures him fearlessly in the scale of perfection, which is God. He affirms God with a lyric exaltation allied to the religious mystics. Yet, on behalf of man, he challeges God in a daring afirmation that the creature made in His image contains in himself the seeds of His perfection.
To the art of poetry Villa introduced the reversed consonance ryhme scheme for greater subtlety and discipline, and the "comma poems" which glorify the punctuation mark by a strangely innovative functional and poetic use.
Villa's poems are distillates of wisdom and passion, couched in language of grave beauty and measured grace. In the country of the poet's imagination, word and
Singalong, Manila, Philippines | Died | February 7, 1997
New York, USA | Pen name | Doveglion | Occupation | Poet, critic, lecturer | Language | English | Nationality | Filipino | Literary movement | Modernism, Surrealism | Notable work(s) | The Anchored Angel, The Emperor's New Sonnet, Footnote to Youth | Notable award(s) | Philippine National Artist, Academy Award for Literature, Guggenheim Fellowship, UP Golden Jubilee Literary Contests, Pro Patria Award, Heritage Award |
Citattion of the National Artist Award conferred on Jose Garcia Villa by the Philippine Government on June 12, 1973
Jose Garcia Villa is one of the finest contemporary poets regardless of race or language. When Have Come , Am Here, the first of his poems to be published in the West, broke upon the surprised consciousness of readers, it was immediately acclaimed for its beauty of language, intensity of thought and a fierce religious spirit absent in the poetry of his age.
Villa's theme are universal- the meaning of self, man's combat with God, the passion of love. He inhabits a timeless world, like the great poets of any language. and rise the ultimate questions about the meaning of life.
The center of Villa's universe is man, the puny inhabitant of a tiny planet, and the poet measures him fearlessly in the scale of perfection, which is God. He affirms God with a lyric exaltation allied to the religious mystics. Yet, on behalf of man, he challeges God in a daring afirmation that the creature made in His image contains in himself the seeds of His perfection.
To the art of poetry Villa introduced the reversed consonance ryhme scheme for greater subtlety and discipline, and the "comma poems" which glorify the punctuation mark by a strangely innovative functional and poetic use.
Villa's poems are distillates of wisdom and passion, couched in language of grave beauty and measured grace. In the country of the poet's imagination, word and