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List Of Mexican Poets
This is a list of notable Mexico, Mexican poets. A * Manuel Acuña * Ignacio Manuel Altamirano * Pita Amor * Homero Aridjis B * Xhevdet Bajraj * Marcos E. Becerra * Alberto Blanco (poet), Alberto Blanco * Minerva Bloom * Bocafloja * Rubén Bonifaz Nuño * Coral Bracho * Gabriela Brimmer C * Manuel Carpio * Rosario Castellanos * Roberto Castillo Udiarte * Alí Chumacero * Rosina Conde * Elsa Cross * Juana Inés de la Cruz * Jorge Cuesta D * Salvador Díaz Mirón E * Genaro Estrada F * Isabel Fraire * Noé de la Flor Casanova * Malva Flores G * Jesús Gardea * Pedro Garfias * Francesca Gargallo * Francisco González Bocanegra * Enrique González Martínez * José Gorostiza * Carlos Graham * Rosario María Gutiérrez Eskildsen * Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera H * Natalio Hernández * Efraín Huerta L * Rossy Evelin Lima * Germán List Arzubide * Sergio Loo * Pura López Colomé * Ricardo López Méndez * Ramón López Velarde * Gregorio López (writer), Gregorio López M * Manu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico covers ,Mexico ''''. . making it the world's 13th-largest country by are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alí Chumacero
Alí Chumacero Lora (9 July 1918 – 22 October 2010) was a Mexican poet, translator, literary critic and editor. He was a member of the Mexican Academy of Language. Biography Alí Chumacero Lora was born on July 9, 1918, in Acaponeta, state of Nayarit, Mexico. His family moved to Guadalajara, where Chumacero studied from primary school to high school. In 1937 he went to Mexico City planning to study Philosophy and Literature at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), but he could not immediately enroll due to having failed some courses in high school. He was living with an aunt and sharing a room with four people, and used the time to read and explore the city. In 1940, while studying at the university, he founded the magazine ''Tierra Nueva'', along with Jorge González Durán, Leopoldo Zea y José Luis Martínez, which was in circulation until 1942. In this publication the authors sought to balance the spontaneity of modern literature with the rigor of acad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco González Bocanegra
Francisco González Bocanegra (January 8, 1824 – April 11, 1861) was a Mexican poet who wrote the lyrics of the Mexican National Anthem in 1853. He was born in San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí to Spanish soldier José María González Yáñez and Francisca Bocanegra y Villalpando, sister of the Foreign Relations Secretary under President Vicente Guerrero, José María Bocanegra. Despite his father being exempted because of being married to a Mexican, in 1827, his family moved to Spain after a law was enacted expelling all remaining Spanish citizens in the country. They settled in the port of Cádiz until the family returned to San Luis Potosí on December 28, 1836. He died in 1861 and is buried in the Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres (Rotunda of Illustrious Persons) in Mexico City. Writing of the Mexican national anthem On November 12, 1853, President Antonio López de Santa Anna announced a competition to write a national anthem for Mexico. The competition offered a pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesca Gargallo
Francesca Gargallo (25 November 1956 – 3 March 2022) was a Sicilian-born Mexican writer and poet. Life and career Born in Syracuse, Italy as Francesca Gargallo di Castel Lentini Celentani, she studied philosophy at the Università degli studi di Roma and then at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). A naturalized Mexican citizen, she lived in the country since 1979. She wrote many poetry books and novels such as; ''Calla mi amor que vivo'', ''Estar en el mundo'', ''La decisión del capitán'', ''Marcha seca'' among others. Gargallo published work in magazines such as '' Proceso''. Gargallo died of cancer on 3 March 2022, aged 65. Selected works * ''Al paso de los días'', Editorial Terracota, Ciudad de México, 2013 * ''Marcha seca'', Ediciones Era, México, 1999, 76 pp. * ''La decisión del capitán'', Ediciones Era, México, 1997, 181 pp. . * ''Los pescadores del Kukulkán'', Aldus, México, 1995, 67 pp. . * ''Estar en el mundo'', Ediciones Era, México, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Garfias
Pedro Garfias Zurita (May 27, 1901 – August 9, 1967) was a Spanish poet. Garfias was born in Salamanca, Spain, but spent his childhood and youth in the Andalusian cities of Seville and Córdoba. In 1918 he moved to Madrid in order to study Law at University; however, he did not finish these studies. That year, Pedro Garfias, along with the young poets Guillermo de Torre, César A. Comet and José Rivas Panedas wrote the first ''Manifiesto Ultraísta'' (Ultraist Manifesto). In the 1920s, along with other poets, he founded the poetry magazines ''Horizonte'' and ''Tableros''. Pedro Garfias was one of the Spanish poets of the Generation of 1927 who was more enthusiastic regarding all the avant-garde movements, as Ultraism. His first book, ''El Ala del Sur'' (Southern Wing, though can be translated as Southern Side) was published in Seville in 1926. He joined the Partido Comunista de España (Spanish Communist Party) when the Spanish Second Republic arrived. In 1938, when the Spani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesús Gardea
Jesús Gardea Rocha (July 2, 1939 – March 12, 2000) was a Mexican writer of fiction and short fiction. Biography Jesús Gardea Rocha was born on July 2, 1939, in Delicias, Chihuahua, Mexico, to Vicente Gardea V. and Francisca Rocha. He studied at the Elementary School No. 306 in Delicias, and later went to study his secondary studies at Benjamin N. Velasco school in Querétaro and its high school in Mexico City. He studied Odontology at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara, and later established in Ciudad Juárez where he carried out such professional activity. Jesús Gardea was discovered as a writer by poet Jaime Labastida. During the Writer's Meeting in Ciudad Juárez, Labastida pushed him to publish ''Los viernes de Lautaro'' in Siglo XXI publishing house in 1979. Six months later, in 1980, he signed a contract with Joaquín Mortiz, another publishing house, to publish a book of short stories entitled ''Septiembre y los otros días'', which was awarded with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malva Flores
Malva Flores (born September 12, 1961, in Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital city, capital and primate city, largest city of Mexico, and the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North Amer ...) is a contemporary Mexican poet. She has also published short stories and essays. In 1991, she was awarded the Premio Nacional de Poesía Joven "Elías Nandino" for her book of poems ''Pasión de caza''. In 1999, she was awarded the Premio Nacional de Poesía Aguascalientes, for her book of poems ''Casa nómada''. She is also the recipient of the Premio Nacional de Ensayo "José Revueltas" (2006) for her work "El ocaso de los poetas intelectuales: poesía y política". She is a member of the editorial committee of '' Literal Magazine''. Published works Poetry * ''Mudanza del árbol / Passage of the Tree''. Translated to English by T. G. Huntington. Houston: Literal Publishing, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noé De La Flor Casanova
Noé de la Flor Casanova (May 29, 1904 in Teapa, Tabasco – 1986 in Mexico City) was a Mexican lawyer, '' cantautor'', writer, poet and politician who served for four years as Governor of Tabasco, before being removed from office following a scandal. Life and work De la Flor y Casanova was the son of Manuel de la Flor Hernández, a master tailor, and Elodia Casanova de de la Flor, the family was extremely poor. After completing primary school in Teapa he moved to Villahermosa (then called San Juan Bautista) to attend the Instituto Juárez, a preparatory school founded by Manuel Sánchez Mármol. With a scholarship, obtained for him by José Vasconcelos at the request of fellow Tabascan Carlos Pellicer, De la Flor Casanova enrolled in the National Preparatory School in Mexico City. After obtaining a law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1930 he served in the following judicial posts: Secretary of the Criminal Courts in the Federal District fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Fraire
Isabel Fraire (December 8, 1931 – April 5, 2015), also known as Isabel Fraire Benson, was a Mexican writer, poet, translator and literary critic. She was one of the prominent members of her generation of literary figures in Mexico. Biography Born on December 8, 1931, in Mexico City, Mexico, of an American mother and a Mexican father, Isabel Fraire studied philosophy and letters at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where she later became a professor of Literature. She served as a member of the editorial board of the ''Revista Mexicana de Literatura''. The book named ''Only This Light'', published in 1969 is considered to be her first book of poems, though her earliest poems appeared in 1959 as ''15 Poems of Isabel Fraire''. Her poems were highly “celebrated for its exquisite images of natural beauty.” As a bilingual since her childhood, she translated the works of a number of well-known literary critics including Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Steve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genaro Estrada
Genaro Estrada (June 2, 1887 – September 29, 1937) was a Mexican statesman, academic, and writer. He was Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico between 1930 and 1932 and the architect of the Estrada Doctrine, which stated that the Mexican government would acknowledge any foreign government, no matter how it came into power. This doctrine would influence Mexican politics all throughout the 20th century. Biography Estrada was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa. He served as a journalist in Mazatlán early in life and moved to Mexico City in 1912, where he was professor at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria and entered the capital's cultural and political life. He became involved in government after the Mexican Revolution. By the end of the 1920s he served as ambassador to Spain and minister to Portugal and Turkey. He later became professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he founded the Academia Mexicana de la Historia. He also published a novel, ''Pero Galín'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvador Díaz Mirón
Salvador Díaz Mirón (December 14, 1853 – June 12, 1928) was a Mexican poet. He was born in the port city of Veracruz. His early verse, written in a passionate, romantic style, was influenced by Lord Byron and Victor Hugo. His later verse was more classical in mode. His poem, ''A Gloria'', was influential. His 1901 volume ''Lascas'' ("Chips from a Stone") established Diaz Mirón as a precursor of modernismo ''Modernismo'' is a literary movement that took place primarily during the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth-century in the Spanish-speaking world, best exemplified by Rubén Darío who is also known as the father of ''Modernismo''. The ter .... After a long period of exile, he returned to Mexico and died in Veracruz on June 12, 1928. W ...
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Jorge Cuesta
Jorge Mateo Cuesta Porte-Petit (b. Córdoba, Veracruz, September 23, 1903 – d. Tlalpan, August 13, 1942) was a Mexican chemist, writer and editor. Biography Cuesta attended school in his hometown, before he did his studies at the Faculty of Chemistry of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) until 1925. In 1924 he published his first short story in a magazine. When he finished his studies, he moved back to Córdoba for a short time. In 1927, back in Mexico City, he met his later wife Guadalupe Marín, who was married to Diego Rivera at that time. In 1928 he travelled to Europe, where he met Octavio G. Barreda, Carlos Luquín, André Breton, Carlos Pellicer, Samuel Ramos and Agustín Lazo. Back in Mexico, Marín and Cuesta married in November 9, 1928. He was co-founder of the Los Contemporáneos group. Cuesta, who worked for several magazines, founded his own magazine in 1932, named ''Examen''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
