José Coronel Urtecho

José Coronel Urtecho was born on 28 February 1906 in Granada, Nicaragua. Having returned from the United States, where he had discovered the poetry of Pound and Whitman, he founded in 1931, with Luis Alberto Cabrales, the Granada avant-garde movement, then translated North American poetry with Ernesto Cardenal. A supporter of the first Somoza, whom he served as a diplomat, he withdrew in 1959 to the San Juan River, met Carlos Fonseca in secret and supported the Sandinista revolution. He died in March 1994.

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• PoetryPól-la d'anánta katánta parántaJosé Coronel Urtecho · 1970not translated into EnglishLiterature