Luis Palés Matos

Luis Palés Matos was born on 20 March 1898 in Guayama, to parents who were poets. His studies cut short by want, he taught himself and published a first collection, Azaleas, in 1915. A postman, office clerk, rural schoolteacher, then journalist at El Mundo and El Imparcial, he founded with José I. de Diego Padró diepalismo, an avant-garde movement, and was appointed poet in residence of the University of Puerto Rico. He died in San Juan on 23 February 1959.

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• PoetryTuntún de pasa y griferíaLuis Palés Matos · 1937not translated into EnglishLiterature