LIFE AND WORKS OF  Jose Garcia Villa was a Filipino literary  As a poet, Jose Garcia Villa is known for

JOSE GARCIA VILLA critic, poet, painter, and short story introducing the reversed consonance rhyme
writer. He was born on August 5, 1908 scheme. According to Villa, in this method,
in Manila. the last sounded consonants of the last
syllable, or the last principal consonant of a
word, are reversed for the corresponding
rhyme. Thus, a rhyme for lightwould be
words such as tile, tall, tale, etc.
 He is also known “I,astonish,Death,with,my,
for his comma largesse. 
She,becomes,a,silly,maid,
poems, where Saying, “Never,mind.
“First, a poem he employed a Never,mind.” 
― Jose Garcia
must be magical,  He gained both local and comma Villa, Doveglion: Collected
international recognition after every word. Poems
then musical as a
for his works. He was
sea-gull.”  named as the National  He used the pseudonym Doveglion, which
Artist for Literature in is derived from dove, eagle, lion.
Villa, Doveglion: 1973, and he was also
Collected Poems a recipient of the
Guggenheim Fellowship.
 During his college years, he wrote Man
Songs, a collection of controversial
poems that was considered too bold by
the University of the Philippines and
became the ground for his suspension
from the said institution.
 Some of his well-known literary works  He died on July 7, 1997.
are "Mir-i-nisa" (won in the Philippines
Free Press in 1929), and "Footnote to
Youth" (published in 1933).