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The Anchored Angel: The Writings of Jose Garcia Villa (KAYA/MUAE) by Jos Garca Villa; Eileen Tabios; Jessica Hagedorn; Luis Cabalquinto; Nick Carb; Jonathan Chua; Luis Francia; Nick Joaqun; Epifanio San Juan Jr.; Alfred Yuzon is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>This book rediscovers the work of Jose Garica Villa, a fiercely iconoclastic Filipino-American poet, by reprinting a selection of his writing and providing rich essays and secondary materials.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Filipino-American Villa (1908-1997) was something of an anomaly, in that he wrote as an ex-pat of a colonial property of the U.S., yet was as unquestioning of the premises and practices of high modernism as he himself was of his abilities and preternatural calling as a poet. The most prominent echoes in the poems, stories and essays collected here are from writers as diverse as Hopkins, Dickinson, Blake and Cummings. Villa's various innovations--his idea of "Reverse Consonance," and the later (taken only half-seriously by his contemporaries) idea of putting commas between every word--seem minor in retrospect compared to those of Williams or Pound. Yet the purity of his approach allows him, at his best, to escape the more fiery, hieratic tones of his earlier poems, and yet access the integrity of the small event: "Silence is Thought converging/ Uprecipitate, like/ Dancer on tight wire balancing,/ Transitive, budlike,// Till--her act finished--in/ One lovely j
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- Author
- Jos Garca Villa; Eileen Tabios; Jessica Hagedorn; Luis Cabalquinto; Nick Carb; Jonathan Chua; Luis Francia; Nick Joaqun; Epifanio San Juan Jr.; Alfred Yuzon
- Publisher
- New York: Kaya: Distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781885030283
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Humanities
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (3 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14