A poetry book by

Alejandro Carrión Alejandro Carrión Aguirre (11 March 1915 – 4 January 1992) was an Ecuadorian poet, novelist and journalist. He wrote the novel ''La espina'' (1959), the short story book ''La manzana dañada'' (1983), and numerous poetry books. As a journalist ...

named ''La sangre sobre la tierra'' is an excursion into epic poetry that begins with the “Canto a la América Española”, written to participate in a continent wide poetry competition convened in

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 Guatema ...

: the poem was short listed as the “Ecuadorian” selection and lost by one vote to the great Venezuelan poet Manuel Felipe Rugeles. “Canto a la línea equinoccial” pleased the publishers of “ Poesía de América”, the Mexican poetry magazine, but caused the indignation of the poet Elio Romero, who found it ‘reactionary’. Jose Maria Egas expressed his enthusiasm for the agonic sacrifices of “Túmulo de Vargas Torres”.

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