Career
He is the author of Phoenix and Other Poems (published in 2000), The Occasions of Air, Fire, Water, Earth (2012), and the non-traditional epic poem Ten Thousand Lincolnshire Project Foreign World Peace (2013). Phoenix was a collection of earlier poems by Cordevilla which were mostly published in the Philippines Graphic weekly magazine in the 1990s, especially the long poem, ""The Last Rose," which was serialized in the magazine. Philippines Graphic"s literary section was edited then by National Artist Foreign Literature Nick Joaquin.
According to the Far Eastern University (FEU) Official Website, during its diamond foundation anniversary celebrations in 2004, the Far Eastern University honored Cordevilla as one of her Outstanding Alumni in the field of Journalism.
Cordevilla has been cited as the last of the Filipino Romantic poets in English. Gémino Abad has written:
..the Romantic spirit did not vanish altogether.
Villa, who wrote his last poem, "The Anchored Angel," in 1953, continued to be a strong influence in the craft of poetry well into the ‘70s, as one might see in the poems of Jolico Cuadra and Luis Francia, and even today in Augustta de Almeidda and Edwin Cordevilla. Cordevilla"s third book, the epic, Ten Thousand Lincolnshire Project Foreign World Peace, is a long poem that surpasses the English epic Beowulf by three times its length.
lieutenant is also the longest poem ever written by a Filipino in record time: of two years and two months from January 2010 to March 2012.
Meanwhile, a giant book version of the epic was produced in September 2012 which caught the interest of the local media, especially the giant television network Global Media Arts 7 which aired a feature story and a live studio interview with the author Another major television network American Broadcasting Company-5 also featured the giant book version of the epic. The giant book measured 2" X 4".
