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The Anchored Angel: Selected Writings by José
Garcia Villa Edited by Eileen Tabios With a foreword by Jessica Hagedorn Book Description . About the Author and Editor. Excerpt . Reviews . Events . Buy Books Now |
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José Garcia Villa was born in Manila, Philippines, in 1908,
and emigrated to the United States in 1929. He received a bachelor's degree
from the University of New Mexico in 1932, and then moved to New York
for graduate study at Columbia University. Scribner's published a collection
of stories called Footnote to Youth in 1933. In 1933, Villa dedicated
himself exclusively to poetry and the experimental opportunities poetry
promised. His first collection, Have Come, Am Here, was published
in 1942 by Viking, and won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award.
His next book, Volume Two, was published in 1949 by New Directions,
where he served as associate editor from 1949-1951. He went on to publish
two more volumes of poetry in the United States ó Selected Poems and
New (1958: McDowell, Obolensky) and Appassionata (1979: King
and Cowen) — and a number of books in the Philippines. Eileen Tabios is the author of a poetry collection titled Beyond Life Sentences (Anvil, 1998). A 1996-1999 editor of the Asian Pacific American Journal, she also wrote a collection of poetry essays/interviews entitled Black Lightning: Poetry-In-Progress, for which she received a Witter Bynner Poetry Grant. She coedited Babaylan: Fiction and Poetry by Filipina Women Writers with Nick Carbó and edited the poetry for Screaming Monkeys, a collection of poetry, prose, and art revolving around cultural portrayals of Asian America. A receipient of fellowships from MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center of the Creative Arts, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Villa Montalvo, and Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain), her poetry, fiction, and essays have been published internationally. Other books by Tabios: |
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