José García Villa
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José García Villa[1] (August 5, 1908 – February 7, 1997) was a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter. He was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973,[2][3] as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken.[4] He is known to have introduced the "reversed consonance rhyme scheme" in writing poetry, as well as the extensive use of punctuation marks—especially commas, which made him known as the Comma Poet.[5] He used the pen name Doveglion (derived from "Dove, Eagle, Lion"), based on the characters he derived from his own works. These animals were also explored by another poet, E. E. Cummings, in "Doveglion, Adventures in Value", a poem dedicated to Villa.[3]
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Born | (1908-08-05)August 5, 1908 Manila, Philippine Islands |
Died | February 7, 1997(1997-02-07) (aged 88) New York City, New York, U.S. |
Pen name | Doveglion |
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Language | English |
Literary movement | Modernism, Surrealism |
Notable works | The Anchored Angel, The Emperor's New Sonnet, Footnote to Youth |
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