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Jose Garcia Villa

José García Villa was a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter. He was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973, as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken. He is known to have introduced the "reversed consonance rhyme scheme" in writing poetry, as well as the extensive use of punctuation marks—especially commas, which made him known as the Comma Poet. He used the pen name Doveglion, based on the characters he derived from his own works. These animals were also explored by another poet, E. E. Cummings, in "Doveglion, Adventures in Value", a poem dedicated to Villa.

Si Jose Garcia Villa ay isinilang sa Singalong, Maynila noong 5 Agosto 1908. Kilala siya sa sagisag na Doveglion. Kinilala sa pamahalaan bilang Pambansang Alagad ng Sining sa Panitikan noong 12 Hunyo 1973. Ang unang koleksiyon ng kanyang mga tula na lumabas noong 1942 ay pinamagatang Have Come, Am Here na nalathala sa Estados Unidos ay umani ng malaking pagkilala.

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