{"product_id":"poetry-is-9789715507172","title":"Poetry Is","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJosé 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTurning to poetics — what poetry is and does — he lectured at his Greenwich Village workshops.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditor 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.","brand":"University of the Philippines Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047201079639,"sku":"9789715507172","price":33.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789715507172.jpg?v=1750970651","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/poetry-is-9789715507172","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}