Hilario Barrero (born 1948) is a Spanish writer, translator, professor and poet. He also is a columnist with Fifth Column in
The New York Times
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.
Biography
He was born in
Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain, in 1948,
[Biographical: Datos bio-bibliográficos](_blank)
(In Spanish) and he had 7 sibling.
(In Spanish:The poem is like a puzzle, without a piece does not continue) In 1976 Barrero published his first book: Siete sonetos (Seven Sonnets). In 1978, Barrero left Spain and settled in New York City
"to work on poetry".
He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the
University of New York City. He is professor of Spanish at
Princeton University
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. He is currently professor of Spanish at the University of New York City (Borough of
Manhattan Community College).
Barrero was
Premio Adonáis de Poesía finalist in 1967 and won several literary prizes. Has translated into Spanish several contemporary American poets, including
Robert Frost,
Donald Hall
Donald Andrew Hall Jr. (September 20, 1928 – June 23, 2018) was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic. He was the author of over 50 books across several genres from children's literature, biography, memoir, essays, and includin ...
and
Jane Kenyon
Jane Kenyon (May 23, 1947 – April 22, 1995) was an American poet and translator. Her work is often characterized as simple, spare, and emotionally resonant. Kenyon was the second wife of poet, editor, and critic Donald Hall who made her the subj ...
.
He also won the I International Poetry Prize Gastón Baquero for his work In tempore belli on 7 May 1998
[ El País: Hilario Barrero, premio de poesía Gastón Baquero](_blank)
(in Spanish: Hilario Barrero, Gastón Baquero poetry prize). and the poetry prize Muskiz lewd Café 2003 with the book The Rockefeller Center elevator.
[Modern Language Professor Awarded Feliks Gross Endowment Award](_blank)
Consulted 11 June 2011, to 23:43 pm.
His awards include also the Feliks Gross Endowment Award, given by the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences (the award honors emerging scholars for their research and scholarly achievements). His work has appeared in magazines in the United States and Spain, and been collected in several anthologies.
Some of his poems have been translated into English by
Gary Racz and published in the journal Downtown Brooklyn Long Island University. He has collaborated, among others, in the following magazines: Aldonza, Clarín, calendering, The height, Grama, Propeller, Hermes, Humerus Bone, Manx, Spanish poetry, Hourglass, Revistatlántica and Turia.
Late, came to BMCC in 2003 after teaching at Princeton University.
Since october 2004 to July 2006, Barrero wrote a personal page called De Cuerpo entero the 7th day of each moth. He write a column in the
New York Times
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since July 2006.
In 2007 he began to publish El Diario de Brooklyn (in English: The Dailies of Brooklyn), a book of poetry that speaks about the life of New York and its features (people, scenes, etc), especially the culture.
Presentación de Brooklyn en blanco y negro, de Hilario Barrero – Gijón
(in Spanish: Presentation of Brooklyn in black and white, Hilario Barrero – Gijón)
Works
The books that he published are:
Books of poetry
* (Seven Sonnets), 1976
* (In tempori belli, Verbum), 1999.
* (in Spanish: Walter and smoke), 2010
* (Language of Wood: History of brief poetry in English only), 2011.
* (Family book), 2012
Diaries
* (Of loves and fears, Book of the Pexe), 2005.
* (Of loves and fears, Book of the Pexe), 2005.
* (Brooklyn Days, Book of the Pexe), 2007.
* (Address Brooklyn, Universes), 2009.
* (Brooklyn in White and Black), 2011.
Tales
* (A smell of sulfur, Book Notes), 2009.
Translations
* (Pre-textos)(By other way), 2007
* (Pre-textos) (Delights and Shadows), 2009
* (Grand Tour) (The lover of Italy), 2009
Anthologies
* . (Mapa poético) (Views of New York. (Map poetic)), (2000).
* , 2002
* (Urban lines. Reading New York), 2002
* (Skin-word (Sample of Spanish poetry in New York)), 2003
* (Here I had to write), 2004
* (Pins, The haiku in the Spanish poetry last), 2004
* (Spanish Writers in America), 2007
* (The Labyrinth of Ariadne, 10 years of poetry), 2008
* (Light unharmed. Four poets, teachers, Valdediós), 2008
* (Stories for Toledo, Cylea Editions), 2009
* (Antología de poesía erótica) (Erato under the skin of desire (erotic poetry anthology)), 2010
* (1975–2008) (Windows on the Atlantic: United States-Spain during the post-Franco (1975–2008)), 2011
* (Poetic History of New York in Contemporary Spain) (Cátedra), 2012
Magazines
He works in Clarín and he has published in Aldonza, Angélica, Arquitrave, Calandrajas, Downtown Brooklyn
Downtown Brooklyn is the third largest central business district in New York City after Midtown Manhattan and Lower Manhattan), and is located in the northwestern section of the borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is known for its office and r ...
, El Súmmum, Grama, Hélice, Hermes, Hueso Húmero, Manxa, Poesía española, Reloj de arena, Revistatlántica y Turia.
References
External links
Tesis: Vida y obra de un claro vascón de Toledo : el legado literario de Félix Urabayen
In Spanish)
El laberinto de Hilario Barrero
In Spanish)
Reseña sobre “Dirección Brooklyn” de Hilario Barrero
In Spanish)
(In Spanish)
Poemas de Hilario Barrero
(In Spanish)
* ttp://www.lne.es/cultura/2013/06/03/gente-versos-vida/1422064.html La gente, los versos, la vida – La Nueva España – Diario
Clarín. Revista de Nueva literatura. Fragmentos de Nueva York, by Hilario Barrero
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Spanish poets
People from Toledo, Spain
Living people
Writers from New York City
1948 births
Spanish male poets
Spanish writers in the United States