
Biography
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.
Works

The Best Short Stories of 1933

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Reader's Companion--Silver

Have Come, Am Here

A Celebration for Edith Sitwell

The critical Villa
The new Doveglion book of Philippine poetry
The new Doveglion book of Philippine poetry
Three Dramas, [Everyman's Library 696]
Three Dramas, [Everyman's Library 696]