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José Garcia Villa (1908—1997) immigrated to the United States from his native Philippines in 1930 and became active in New York's literary scene as a poet, editor, and lecturer. His first book of poems, Have Come, Am Here, was published by Viking in 1942 to great critical acclaim. John Edwin Cowen is the literary trustee for the Villa estate. He lives in New Jersey. Luis H. Francia is an award-winning poet and writer.

The centennial edition of major Filipino writer José Garcia Villa's collected poetry

Known as the “Pope of Greenwich Village,” José Garcia Villa had a special status as the only Asian poet among a group of modern literary giants in 1940s New York that included W. H. Auden, Tennessee Williams, and a young Gore Vidal. But beyond his exotic ethnicity, Villa was a global poet who 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Doveglion (Villa's pen name—for dove, eagle, and lion) contains Villa's collected poetry, including rare and previously unpublished material.

Edith Sitwell

[Villa is] a poet with a great, even an astounding, and perfectly original gift. . . . The best of his poems are among the most beautiful written in our time.

Have Come, Am Here

Lyrics: I

Lyrics: II

Lyrics: III

Lyrics: IV

Divine Poems

from Volume Two

Divine Poems

Aphorisms, I

Caprices

Aphorisms, II

from Selected Poems and New

New Poems and Adaptations

Aphorisms, III

Adaptations

Early Poems

Lyrics

Philosophica

from Appassionata: Poems in Praise of Love

Duo-Technique and Xocerisms

Duo-Technique Poems and Adaptations

Xocerisms