Juan Ignacío Cazador Sakho, (pronounced xwan iɣ̞'naθio kaθa'ð̞or 'sako known as Juan (el) Cazador (4 June 1899 – 4 June 1956) was a Spanish poet and artist of Spanish and Senegalese origin. He was born in the village of Acequías, Granada on the edge of the Sierra Nevada.

Biography

Cazador met the poet

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at the

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in Madrid in 1919. Lorca, who was born in

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, saw a kindred spirit in his fellow Granadino. The two developed a close relationship driven by their shared love of the poetry of José Hernández, in particular the gauchesco epic

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. Cazador's own poetry was admittedly influenced by Hernandez, reflected in his reappropriation of the Argentine 'payada'. As a poet of the

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, his work has been critically overlooked because of its overreliance on bucolic imagery and use of blank verse. Nonetheless, his later work has attracted much attention in recent years and Steve Jones-Broule & Dr Susana Bayó Belenguer of

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's Department of Hispanic Studies are currently working on a forthcoming anthology of Cazador's work. During his lifetime, he travelled extensively around the Iberian Peninsula, spending many of his later summers in the

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region of

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. He became well acquainted with the son of Carvalho Monteiro, the visionary and owner behind the

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estate and was known to spend hours gazing at the Waterfall Lake.

Political beliefs

Cazador's political beliefs were firmly rooted in the

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school of political philosophy, and were inspired by the works of

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and

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in particular. These beliefs are especially identifiable in Cazador's ''Pastorales (I-XXI)'' in which he poignantly describes the small and semi-autonomous communities of the Sierra Nevada. Cazador's political convictions led him to become a firm proponent of the right to self-determination. Writing in the periodical '' Solidaridad Obrera'' on 29 February 1919, he said: ''I support Ireland's right to be a sovereign and independent nation, freed from the shackles of British imperialism. The subjugation, hardship, and imposition of

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upon Ireland over the course of the last five centuries must cease.''

Poetry

* ''Pastorales (I-XXI)'' * ''La incandescencia de la luciérnaga común y otras poemas'' * ''Super Bock''

Death

Cazador died on 4 June 1956, while hunting ibex on the outskirts of the village of

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. He is buried in the nearby town of

Zahara de la Sierra Zahara de la Sierra is a municipality in the province of Cádiz in the hills of Andalusia, southern Spain. It is perched on a mountain, overlooking a valley and a man-made lake formed by the dam that must be driven over to access the town. It is ...

. According to Gibson, his blood was collected in a container by his son and brought back to his hometown of Acequías, to be poured onto the earth outside his house.Ian Gibson, ''Federico García Lorca: A Life'', , pp. 112-3

References

Sources

*Dámaso Alonso, ''Poetas Españoles Contemporáneos'', (Biblioteca Románica Hispánic - Editorial Gredos, Madrid: 1952) *Federico Bonaddio, ''A Companion to García Lorca'', (Monografías A), (Woodbridge, Tamesis: 2007) *Ian Gibson, ''Federico García Lorca: A Life'', (Faber and Faber, London: 1990) *Christopher Gudgeon, ''The Fifth Column Inch'', (OUP, London: 2001) *Malcolm Jack, ''Sintra: A Glorious Eden'', (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon: 2002) {{DEFAULTSORT:Cazador, Juan 1899 births 1956 deaths Spanish male poets 20th-century Spanish poets 20th-century Spanish male writers

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