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Philippine Literature

The poem explores the speaker's complex relationship with God, where he both pushes God off cliffs but also reaches out to help Him. The speaker questions whether God is who he believes Him to be. In the end, the speaker and God acknowledge their intertwined relationship, saying "this is the way we are." Jose Garcia Villa was a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer and painter who was born in 1908 in Manila. He had a prolific writing career from 1929-1949 and was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title in 1973, before passing away in 1997 at age 88 in New York from a cerebral stroke and pneumonia.

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Philippine Literature

The poem explores the speaker's complex relationship with God, where he both pushes God off cliffs but also reaches out to help Him. The speaker questions whether God is who he believes Him to be. In the end, the speaker and God acknowledge their intertwined relationship, saying "this is the way we are." Jose Garcia Villa was a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer and painter who was born in 1908 in Manila. He had a prolific writing career from 1929-1949 and was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title in 1973, before passing away in 1997 at age 88 in New York from a cerebral stroke and pneumonia.

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The way the Ideas think me

JOSE GARCIA VILLA

The way my ideas think me


Is the way I unthink God.
As in the name of heaven I
make hell
That is the way the Lord says
me.

And all is adventurer and danger


And I roll Him off cliffs and
mountains
But fast as I am to push Him off
Fast am I to reach Him below.

And it may be then His turn to


push me off,
I wait breathless for that terrible
second:
And if He push me not, I turn
around in anger:
O art thou the God I would have!

Then He pushes me and I plunge


down, down!
And when He comes to help me
up
I put my arms around him, saying,
Brother, . . . This is the way we
are.

Jose Garcia Villa


- was born on August 5, 1908, (Manilas Singalong
District)
- He graduated from the University of the Philippines
Integrated School and the University of the Philippines
High School in 1925.
- His parents were Simeon Villa And Guia Garcia.
- he 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.

Writing career
1929
1933
1942
1949

- Man Songs
- Footnote to Youth
- Have Come, Am Here
Comma Poems

Death
- On February 05 1997, at the age of 88, Jose
was found in a coma in his New York
apartment and rushed to St. Vincent Hospital
in the Greenwich Village Area.

-His Death two days later, February 07, was


attributed to Cerebral stroke and multilobar
pneumonia. He was buried on February 10 in
St. Johns Cemetery in New York, Wearing a
Barong Tagalog.

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