The Critical Villa: Essays in Literary Criticism

No one can forget, avoid, or dismiss Jose Garcia Villa, the poet. The Philippine literary landscape is filled with his work, his statements, his iconoclasm. One remembers the early short stories, the gnomic statements on poetry, the later comma poems, the acceptance by fellow poets like Marianne Moore and the Sitwells, the Villa-Lopez controversy, the poems that cause his severance from the University of the Philippines, the self-exile in New York.