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Doveglion: Collected Poems (Penguin Classics)

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Few poets have impressed me, yet this one--Jose Garcia Villa--is, without doubt, the most impressive. What's striking is his rare gift of subtlety and mastery of the English words that his poems seem like brief, beautiful symphonies. That he is one of those underrated literary geniuses of our time is beyond me; but perhaps the poet Villa himself predicted his own reputation when he wrote in one of his poems these
poignant lines:
Nobody yet knows who I am,
Nor myself may;
Nor yet what I deal,
Nor yet where I lead.