Carlos Edmundo de Ory (April 27, 1923 – November 11, 2010), born in the

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. He was a son of Eduardo de Ory, who was a

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poet and founder of the ''Academia Hispanoamericana de Cádiz'' (Cadiz's Spanish American Society). In the circle of friends of Eduardo de Ory were poets as

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, Juan Ramón Jíménez, Manuel Reina and

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. Ory was fundamental in modernizing post-

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poetry by creating work that engaged major twentieth-century European avant-gardes such as

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, and

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. He, along with

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and the Italian poet Silvano Sernesi, was the co-founder of a poetry movement called Postismo ( Postism). Postism consisted of a loose group of writers creating work that valued language play and was set against the neo-romanticism of Spain’s official literary culture. Among the writers associated with the movement are

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, and

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. Ory twice tried to bring out a literary journal to advance the work and tenets of Postism, but on both occasions the journal was censored by the

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and was not allowed to be distributed. In the face of so much opposition, Postism was short-lived and faded into obscurity with Ory himself continuing to write and publish far from the public view. He ended up leaving Spain for

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in the 1960s to escape the suffocating literary and political environment. It was only in the 1970s that poets and critics (particularly

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poet and critic Jaume Pont) essentially re-discovered Postism and Ory. Since that time, both Ory and the movement have been increasingly recognized and influential on the Spanish literary landscape. Ory’s role in Spain is analogous to that of

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and the

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poets in the United States: he opened Spanish poetry up to new possibilities of poetic language and content. In fact, Ginsberg, along with

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, translated a volume of Ory’s poetry, though the book never made it into circulation. Ginsberg also dedicated a poem to Ory in his book Cosmopolitan Greetings. For almost six decades Ory has been one of Spain’s most innovative and original writers, publishing numerous works of poetry and criticism. He lived with his wife, French artist Laura Lachéroy, in the village of

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in France until his death on November 11, 2010 of

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Selected works

* ''Melos Melancolía'' (Ediciones Igitur, 2003) * ''Antología'' (de Bolsillo, 2001)

External links

Poetic Propositions of Carlos Edmundo de Ory

Quotes, Chronology, Poems, and More (in Spanish)

Translation of short prose piece in ''

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