Jose garcia villa biography summary rubric

Filipino poet (1908–1997)

In this Philippine name, the middle name or maternal family name is García and the surname or paternal family name is Villa.

José García Villa^[1] (August 5, 1908 – February 7, 1997) was a Filipinopoet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter.

He was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973,^[2][3] as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken.^[4] 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.^[5] He used the pen name Doveglion (derived from "Dove, Eagle, Lion"), 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.^[3&