“I, began, to, Die, and, I, began, to, Grow”: Incarnational Theopoetics in the Poetry of José Garcia Villa

• Main Author: Chan, Nathan Timothy
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2023
• Subjects: José Garcia Villa; theopoetics; comma poems; theology and poetry
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/paha/vol13/iss2/2; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/paha/article/1304/viewcontent/PAHA_2013.2_203_20Articles_2C_20Notes_2C_20and_20Comments_20__20Chan.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Although critics have observed that Villa’s poems use religious language and imagery, this has not been sufficiently explored. The article interprets the first set of seven comma poems that Villa published in 1948 as exemplifying his incarnational theopoetics in both form and content. In these poems...