The Anchored Angel: Selected Writings by José Garcia Villa
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THE ANCHORED ANGEL: SELECTED WRITINGS BY JOSÉ GARCIA VILLA reintroduces the work of the celebrated writer to the United States. At the height of his career, Villa's writings earned him prizes, fellowships, and lavish praise from some of the greatest literary luminaries of the day. Yet his work has been out of the public eye for more than thirty years and out of print for more than fifteen. Although named a National Artist in the Philippines where he was born, Villa remains largely unknown in the United States today.
"THE ANCHORED ANGEL is a marvelous reintroduction to the work of one of the greatest pioneers of Asian American literature. For José Garcia Villa was our bitter, narcissistic angel of both late Modernism and early post-colonialism, an inventive, luminous intelligence full of sweet song and possessed of an unforgettably unique, bilious presence of a legend. Like the César Vallejo of Trilce, Villa could be abstract, elusive, eccentric, yet capable of a lyric passion so intense, both heart and throat ache to intone his strophes. Editor Eileen Tabios and the contributing essayists have accomplished a literary treasure, an archive, and a clear-eyed act of literary homage to an important figure in twentieth-century world poetry."
—Garrett Hongo T
Publisher: Kaya Press (3/1/2000)
Language : English
Paperback : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 1885030282
ISBN-13 : 978-1885030283
Item Weight : 15 ounces
J.J.
"THE ANCHORED ANGEL is a marvelous reintroduction to the work of one of the greatest pioneers of Asian American literature. For José Garcia Villa was our bitter, narcissistic angel of both late Modernism and early post-colonialism, an inventive, luminous intelligence full of sweet song and possessed of an unforgettably unique, bilious presence of a legend. Like the César Vallejo of Trilce, Villa could be abstract, elusive, eccentric, yet capable of a lyric passion so intense, both heart and throat ache to intone his strophes. Editor Eileen Tabios and the contributing essayists have accomplished a literary treasure, an archive, and a clear-eyed act of literary homage to an important figure in twentieth-century world poetry."
—Garrett Hongo T
Publisher: Kaya Press (3/1/2000)
Language : English
Paperback : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 1885030282
ISBN-13 : 978-1885030283
Item Weight : 15 ounces
J.J.