Poetry
Laurel de Anáhuac
Not translated into English
Jacobo Cárcamo · 1954
Synopsis
Poems on Mexico, the land of exile of their author. Its landscapes and cities, the valley of Anáhuac and its Indian past, the old ahuehuete that endures, the heroes of its history, Morelos, Juárez, Cuauhtémoc, Guerrero and the cadets of Chapultepec, each receive a song; one poem, “Pasaje para mi pueblo”, turns back to the poverty and hunger of the people.
Context
The collection is published in Mexico; most listings date it to 1954, its online biography to 1955. The national award of 1955, worth a thousand dollars, is linked to it by the Centro Lombardo, and the money was used to publish the next collection. These two books contain, according to critics, the lasting work of their author; their poems were included in a posthumous anthology published in Tegucigalpa in 1977.
Who it is for
Poems in Spanish, with dense imagery, with no French or English translation; they can be read in the 1977 anthology.
Prizes and reception
The book that the Centro Lombardo links to the national literature prize received by its author in 1955.
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