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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.

Poetry Is

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      Publisher University of the Philippines Press
      Published 30 October 2016
      ISBN-13 9789715507172
      978-9715507172
      ISBN-10 9715507174
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      Literary studies: poetry and poets

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

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