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Volume Two
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The Collected Stories of Jose Garcia Villa
Here at last, insofar as possible for the meticulous and indefatigable scholar, an amazing collection of the entire corpus of Jose Garcia Villa's short stories! Through all the stories in light of that assessment, we see how Villa as fictionist gained his critical acumen in the art of fiction whereby as its critic he cleared the ground for its maturity in the development of Philippine fiction; likewise, Villa's agon with the medium of expression for substance and form led him to poetry as Doveglion: the stories are the sea, says Villa, the poems the horizon, for the sea designed the horizon.
The Critical Villa
First anthology of Villa's essays written from the 1920s to the 1950s, which created a canon of Philippine fiction and poetry--essays counting as among the most significant in Philippine literary criticism in English. Includes the famed annual Villa selection of best short stories and poems, occasional critical essays and letters to the editor, and unpublished pieces. With extensive explanatory and bibliographic notes.
Doveglion: Collected Poems
The renowned modernist poet of experiment and innovation known as “The Pope of Greenwich Village” and a pioneer of Filipino American poetry A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his first U.S. poetry collection published by Viking Press in 1942, Villa was admired for “the reverence, the raptness, the depth of concentration in [his] bravely deep poems” (Marianne Moore). Doveglion (Villa’s pen name for dove, eagle, and lion) contains Villa’s collected poetry, including rare and previously unpublished material. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Appassionata
Jose Garcia Villa's first book of poems, HAVE COME, AM HERE, brought him immediate recognition as one of the finest & purest poets writing today. His work has been highly praised by: E.E. CUMMINGS: "and I am alive to see a man against the sky---" BABETTE DEUTSCH: "As singular as the work of Emily Dickinson or Hopkins." EDITH SITWELL: "The best of his poems are among the most beautiful written in our time." MARK VAN DOREN: "One of the purest & most natural gifts discoverable anywhere in contemporary poetry." RICHARD EBERHART: "A pure, startling & resounding poetry, informed with so much legerity & fire..." MARIANNE MOORE: "He is not a destroyer, his work is reverent...Final wisdom encountered...
Have Come, Am Here
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Poetry is
José Garcia Villa, a twentieth century Philippine phenomenon, took by storm the Filipino and American literary establishments, winning wide acclaim for short stories and poems in English. Turning to poetics -- what poetry is and does -- he lectured at his Greenwich Village workshops. Editor Robert King -- Villa's long-time student -- has restored these lectures from Villa's theory of poetry notebooks at Harvard's Houghton Library. They unfold in plain textbook form and make the case for restoration of lyric poetry divested of prose elements and for an expanded readership of same.
Jose Garcia Villa
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