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But out of sudden disaster evolved a fierce poetic sensibility--one that blossomed into a refuge for all the grief, fury, and wonder at life forever altered. Although its legacy lies in tragedy, the voice of these brilliant poems cuts a broad swath of emotions: whether he is lamenting the potentiality of physical experience or imagining the electric temptations of sexuality, Guest offers us a worldview that is unshakable in its humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuest, Paul:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003ePaul Guest is the author of three poetry collections, \u003cem\u003eThe Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the 2002 New Issues Prize in Poetry; \u003cem\u003eNotes for My Body Double\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize; and \u003cem\u003eMy Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge\u003c\/em\u003e. The recipient of a 2007 Whiting Award, he lives in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50317895762194,"sku":"9780061685194","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3aab7683-cb60-450b-8374-10b5df5b899c.jpg?v=1727542359"},{"product_id":"doveglion-collected-poems-9780143105350","title":"Doveglion: Collected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe renowned modernist poet of experiment and innovation known as \"The Pope of Greenwich Village\" and a pioneer of Filipino American poetry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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). \u003ci\u003eDoveglion\u003c\/i\u003e (Villa's pen name for dove, eagle, and lion) contains Villa's collected poetry, including rare and previously unpublished material. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJose Garcia Villa \u003c\/b\u003e(1908-1997) was a Filipino poet, writer, and critic. He used the pen name \"Doveglion,\" which was a combination of the words \"dove,\" \"eagle,\" and \"lion\" and was what he believed was his true persona. His notable works include \u003ci\u003eThe Anchored Angel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Emperor's New Sonnet\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFootnote to Youth\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Edwin Cowen \u003c\/b\u003eis a poet as well as a professor of literacy and education at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. His collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eMathematics of Love: Poems by John Edwin Cowen\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2011. He also edited \u003ci\u003eDoveglion: The Collected Poems of Jose Garcia Villa\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLuis H. Francia\u003c\/b\u003e a writer and professor with Hunter College's Asian American Studies department. 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Theirs is a quiet voice of the hints that the past, like the things that inhabit it, emanates, of evanescences, of questioning and questing, of the mystery of ordinary moments: playing cards, drawing, opening a door, building sheds, seeing neighbors. 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