José García Villa 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, as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken.
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David HilliardAlso won PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award
Lucio D. San PedroAlso won National Artist of the Philippines
Lyn HejinianAlso won Shelley Memorial Award
Virgilio S. AlmarioAlso won National Artist of the Philippines
Luis J. RodriguezAlso won PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary AwardAbout this person
José García Villa 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, as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken. 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. He used the pen name Doveglion, 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.
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