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by: Jose Garcia Villa
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.912
EAN: 9781885030283
ISBN: 1885030282
Label: Kaya/Muae
Manufacturer: Kaya/Muae
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 252
Publication Date: 2000
Publisher: Kaya/Muae
Release Date: October 02, 1999
Sales Rank: 335602
Studio: Kaya/Muae
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By Luis Cabalquinto. Edited by Eileen Tabios. Contributions by Nick Carbo, Jonathan Chua, Jose Garcia Villa.
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Rating: - A Long Overdue Tribute
I was in José's poetry class at the New School in New York City around 1970.
After class he and a few of us students would go over to Smith's Bar and talk about everything until all hours. The book characterizes him as being at times irascible. If so, I never saw it. Opinionated, yes, often heatedly. But always responsive to a debating opponent and willing to praise a good argument.
José taught me to understand poetry. He was intolerant of "versed-up" prose. He was disdainful ... Read More
Rating: - Rediscovering A Minor Master
This book is a delight. The sampling of Villa's experimental and visionary work is good. The memoirs and essays at the end of the book are superb. One writer wonders why Villa does not appear in contemporary anthologies of modernist and postmodernist anthologies and posits the "otherness" of Villa as Philippine-American as the cause. I agree, but also suggest that Villa's "wrestling with God" in the sense that Hopkins and the 17th c. Metaphysicals did, did not endear him to the decidedly secular critics ... Read More
Rating: - PEN-OAKLAND JOSEPHINE MILES NATIONAL LITERARY AWARD
The Anchored Angel has just been awarded PEN-Oakland's Josephine Miles National Literary Award. This is from PEN-Oakland's Press Release:
National in scope, the PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Awards represent a new perception of multicultural literature that does not seek its validation from the literary establishment, but creates its own standards and models of literature. PEN Oakland, a Bay Area chapter of the International Organization of Poets, Essayists and Novelists was founded in ... Read More
Rating: - A Moving Tribute
From a review by Jean Gier for The International Examinder's PACIFIC READER:
(Villa's) poetry surprised me; the language was stunning, singular; not like any other poetry I had ever read, although it reminded me of Lorca, Dickinson, and even Gertrude Stein. It is an often disturbing poetry that seems torn between a 16th century lyrical mysticism, and an almost violent modernism...
The Anchored Angel is a moving tribute to an artist whose work deserves much more attention. Perhaps even ... Read More
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