Born in Davao City, his work vividly portrays Mindanao's diverse ... University of the Philippines Press, 1991. Villa, Jose Garcia. Collected Poems. Edited by Edith L. Tiempo.

The birthday of the late National Artist for Literature, Jose Garcia Villa ... Peter Monro Jack called Villa’s works as “an astonishing discovery. . . This is a poet of instinctive genius ...

In the past, its National Artists Collectors' Series has honored the works of literary giant Nick Joaquin and esteemed painter Ang Kiukok, and this June, poet Jose Garcia Villa. To launch the new ...

That was the pseudonym of Jose Garcia Villa, our first National ... Luis Francia summed up Villa’s life and work. “Villa’s English . . . was not the English of the colonial masters, but ...

THE gold, the wild-beast fires begin again upon the fruit-boughs Running from branch to branch, and our gold veins Catch fire. In the caverns where our blood begins Sound the ancestral voices That ...