José García Villa

NACIDO en 1908 en Singalong, uno de los distritos más exclusivos de Manila, José Garcia Villa desarrolló la mayor parte de su obra poética en los Estados Unidos, país al que emigró en 1930. Garcia Villa continuo sus estudios de medicina en la Universidad de Nuevo Mexico donde fundo Clay, revista en la que colaboraron, entre otros, Erskine Caldwell, William Saroyan y William Carlos Williams. Al poco tiempo se mudo a Nueva York, ciudad que lo adopto para siempre. En Nueva York, Garcia Villa pertenecio al circulo de los gigantes del modernismo norteamericano de los años cincuenta, como W. H. Auden, Tennesse Williams, Marianne Moore, Edith Sitwell y Gore Vidal. Garcia Villa, conocido como el Pope de Greenwich Village, murio de un derrame cerebral en Nueva York en febrero de 1997. Esta es la primera vez que poemas suyos aparecen traducidos al español.

The renowned modernist poet of experiment and innovation known as The Pope of Greenwich Village and a pioneer of Filipino American poetryA finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his first U.S. poetry collection published by Viking Press in 1942, Villa was admired for the reverence, the raptness, the depth of concentration in [his] bravely deep poems (Marianne Moore). Doveglion (Villas pen name for dove, eagle, and lion) contains Villas collected poetry, including rare and previously unpublished material.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.