The anchored angel : selected writings / by José Garcia Villa ; edited by Eileen Tabios ; with a foreword by Jessica Hagedorn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Villa, José García.

Contributor:

Tabios, Eileen, 1960-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Villa, José García--Criticism and interpretation.

Villa, José García.

Philippine literature (English).

Filipino Americans--Literary collections.

Filipino Americans.

English literature--20th century--Filipino American authors.

English literature.

Filipino American authors.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv, 255 pages : portrait ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Kaya, 1999.

Summary:

Jose Garcia Villa was an elusive figure in American literary circles. At the height of his career in the 1940s and 1950s, Villa was part of an elite literary circle that included Marianne Moore, e. e. cummings, Dame Edith Sitwell, Dylan Thomas, and W.H. Auden. His first book of poetry, Have Come, Am Here, won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in 1942, the first of many other awards. Yet, despite numerous accolades, he has been largely dismissed in the United States where his reputation was built and has been criticized in Asian American studies for not being "ethnic" enough. The Anchored Angel rediscovers the work of this fierce: conoclast by reprinting a selection of his writing and providing rich secondary materials, including a complete bibliography.

Notes:

Bibliography: pages 237-241.

ISBN:

1885030282

OCLC:

45123084