First, A Poem Must Be Magical; By Jose Garcia Villa; First, a poem must be magical, Then musical as a seagull. It must be a brightness moving; And hold secret a bird’s flowering;

(A Martyrs hopes, dreams, aspirations and goodbyes); Last Poem of Rizal ; ... Jose Garcia Villa's Poems ... A Poem Must Be Magical; If the Heart Can no Love; When I was Bigger Than a Huge

[If you are unfamiliar with Jose Garcia Villa's works and wish to learn more, you are encouraged to read THE ANCHORED ANGEL (Kaya, 1999)which I edited and features essays by Jessica Hagedorn,

Still, I think it would be a disservice to Villa if I presented his poems merely in polemical terms. Ultimately, Jose Garcia Villa believed the poem is but a song.

And jose garcia villa s moonlight s watermelon well e is a dramatic piece in the expansive, forte phrase seems to express the effusive, ebullient declamation of the. ... Poem On Teachers

First, a poem must be magical, Then musical as sea gull. It must be a brightness moving; And hold secret a bird’s flowering. It must be slender as a bell, And it must hold fire as well.

Jose Garcia Villa grew up in Singalong Manila but spent most of his writing life in the U.S. He is one of the best when it comes E.E. Cummings, a famed American poet, attributed a poem for him,

Kaya is proud to present The Anchored Angel: Selected Writings by Jose Garcia Villa, a collection of poetry ... Deign of the book is good, and the title poem is worth the price of admission alone.

Jose Garcia Villa Makes It to World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time, Edited by Washburn & Major; ... He is represented in World Poetry, not by his famous poem,

; Jose Garcia Villa; ... He used Doveglion (Dove, Eagle, Lion) as penname, the very characters he attributed to himself, and the same ones explored by e.e. cummings in the poem he wrote for Villa (Doveglion,